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Figures de la Bible : illustrees de huictains francoys, pour l'interpretation et intelligence d'icelles.

Accession number
PML 126101
Creator
Guéroult, Guillaume, -approximately 1570.
Published
À Lyon : Par Guillaume Rouille, 1565.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman; 1995.
Notes
269 woodcuts, each accompanied by 8 lines of verse. Woodcuts attributed by Baudrier to Pierre Vase, i.e. Pierre Eskrich. Verses by Guillaume Guéroult.
A reissue of the 1564 edition.
A companion volume, Figures du Nouueau Testament, by Claude de Pontoux, was published in 1570. Rouillé explains in the preface of that work that the delay in its publication was due to a bad outbreak of the plague.
Signatures: A-S⁸ T⁴ (T4 blank).
Bound with Claude de Pontoux, Figures du Nouueau Testament, Lyon : Guillaume Rouille, 1570. Signatures: Aa-LL³.
Description
[296] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
Olive morocco stamped in gold; all edges gilt; marbled end papers. Signed by Koehler (spine).
Classification
Department