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La Morosophie de Guillaume de la Perriere... : Contenant Cent Emblemes moraux, illustrez de Cent Tetrastiques Latins, reduitz en autant de Quatrains Françoys.

Accession number
PML 64707
Creator
La Perrière, Guillaume de, 1499-1565.
Published
Lyon, : Par Macé Bonhomme, [Feb. 12], 1553.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Sinclair Hamilton, 1973.
Notes
Last leaf (blank) wanting.
With privilege granted Aug. 11, 1551 to Jean Mounier and Jean Perrin, publishers of Toulouse.
Illustrations: full-page woodcut portrait of the author and 101 smaller woodcuts. Historiated or ornamental borders (many repeated, mostly four-piece) surround the title and most of the pages. In a few of them the initials I M and I P of the Toulouse publishers appear.
Brunet, III, 830. Rothschild: Catalogue, V, 3328. Brun: Livre illusté en France au XVIe siècle, p. 244-245. Brunschwig: Bibliothèque, 457. Baudrier, X, 237-238. Praz: emblem books, 93.
Description
114 l. : illus., port. ; 17 cm
Provenance
Robert Hoe; Lucius Wilmerding; Sinclair Hamilton.
Binding
Red morocco gilt.
Classification
Department