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L'espinette du ieune prince : conquerant le royaulme de bonne renommee.

Accession number
PML 196180
Creator
Bougouyn, Simon.
Published
Nouuellement imprime a Paris : [pour Jehan Petit], [31 October 1514]
Credit line
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Sixteenth-Century Fund, 2015.
Notes
The author's name is given in an acrostic before the colophon.
Publisher's name from colophon; publisher's device on final leaf verso. Another issue names the printer Michel Le Noir instead of Jean Petit in the colophon and displays Le Noir's device instead of Petit's device.
In verse; illustrated initials.
Signatures: A-Q⁶.
Description
[192] p. : 51 woodcuts ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Provenance
Bookplates of Charles Fairfax Murray, Sylvain S. Brunschwig (sale, Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, 30 March 1955, lot 342); and Jean Bonna (sale, Christie's, London, 16 June 2015, lot 19).
Binding
Red morocco, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, by Chambolle-Duru.
Classification
Department