Accession number
PML 1028
Published
A Paris : Imprimees par Michel le noir, [approximately 1520]
Credit line
Purchase with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
PML copy is missing both title page and colophon, so the identification of the edition is unclear. The edition Paris: widow of Jean Trepperel [1530] is a close reprint with new woodcuts that copy those in this edition. Imprint identification via Mary Beth Winn in comparison with Paris, BnF, Rothschild copy.
Toovey catalogue records imprint as Paris: Michel Le Noir, 1518. (On attributing the printer, see letter from Belle Green to Seymour de Ricci, 14 June 1937, in PML dealer files.)
Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ C⁶ d⁴ e⁸ f⁴ g⁸ h⁴ i⁶ k⁴ l⁸ m⁴ n⁸ o⁴ p⁸ q⁴ r⁸ s⁴ t⁸ v⁴ x⁴ y⁸ z⁴ [et]⁸ A-B⁴ ²C⁶: 154 leaves.
PML copy missing 13 leaves: a1-8, t6, B2-3, ²C1, and ²C6; 3 preliminary leaves including title and beginning of first Nouvelle replaced in modern type facsimile and leaves t6, B2-3, C1 replaced in manuscript facsimile.
This copy was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Bindings, 1891, no. 104, when in the possession of Buckley.
Toovey catalogue records imprint as Paris: Michel Le Noir, 1518. (On attributing the printer, see letter from Belle Green to Seymour de Ricci, 14 June 1937, in PML dealer files.)
Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ C⁶ d⁴ e⁸ f⁴ g⁸ h⁴ i⁶ k⁴ l⁸ m⁴ n⁸ o⁴ p⁸ q⁴ r⁸ s⁴ t⁸ v⁴ x⁴ y⁸ z⁴ [et]⁸ A-B⁴ ²C⁶: 154 leaves.
PML copy missing 13 leaves: a1-8, t6, B2-3, ²C1, and ²C6; 3 preliminary leaves including title and beginning of first Nouvelle replaced in modern type facsimile and leaves t6, B2-3, C1 replaced in manuscript facsimile.
This copy was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Bindings, 1891, no. 104, when in the possession of Buckley.
Description
[154] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Provenance
Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736), armorial binding, his sale, Paris, 1 April 1738, lot 2637; unidentified shelf mark: J/6.18 8., crossed out (front endleaf 1 verso); David Garrick, his sale, Saunders, 23 April 1823, lot 497 (binding described as blue morocco), to Turner for £0.18.6; T. Turner (active 1823) (perhaps Thomas Turner of Gloucester, sale P&S, 20 June 1860), with bibliographic notes citing his purchase at Garrick sale (front endleaf 1 verso); William Edward Buckley (1818-1892), his sale, Sotheby's, 27 Feb. 1893, lot 938 to Toovey for £15; James Toovey (1814-1893), Burnham Abbey book label (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
18th-century French gilt-tooled dark green morocco, with Hoym arms.
Classification
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