Accession number
PML 1767
Published
Lugduni : Apud Joh. and Dan. Elsevirios, [1653?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Dedication signed and dated: Ioannes Bollandus, Antverpiae ... M.DC.XXX.
"One of the most beautiful as well as one of the rarest books printed by the Elzeviers. It bears no date, but it was probably produced in 1653, as Jean and Daniel were only partners from 1652 to May 1655, and it is often found bound up with Corneille's French metrical translation of 1653"; cf. Goldsmid, "A complete catalogue ... of the Elzevier presses," v.2, p.103.
Sig. A1r is engraved title-page.
Sig.L contains bio-bibliographical material on Thomas à Kempis; the first essay is by Heribert Rosweyde.
"One of the most beautiful as well as one of the rarest books printed by the Elzeviers. It bears no date, but it was probably produced in 1653, as Jean and Daniel were only partners from 1652 to May 1655, and it is often found bound up with Corneille's French metrical translation of 1653"; cf. Goldsmid, "A complete catalogue ... of the Elzevier presses," v.2, p.103.
Sig. A1r is engraved title-page.
Sig.L contains bio-bibliographical material on Thomas à Kempis; the first essay is by Heribert Rosweyde.
Description
257, [7] p. : ill. ; 13 cm.
Provenance
Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), signature, 1822; James Toovey, acquired Gosford's library in 1878 and sold the French books: Paris, "Bibliothèque d'un amateur Anglais," 1 May 1882, lot 45; Theodore Irwin, purchased from Dodd Mead & Co., March 1892; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
Blue morocco (126 mm.) in a slip case. Bound by Roger Payne.
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