Accession number
PML 198075
Published
A Paris : Pour Jehan Bonfons, libraire demourant en la Rue Neufue nostre dame a lenseigne Sainct Nicolas, [1550]
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title and imprint from leaf A1r.
Colophon, leaf [con]1r.
Title page printed in black and red.
Bonfons printer's device, leaf [con]4v.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C⁶ D-E⁴ F⁸ G-X⁴ y-z [et] [con]⁴: 110 leaves. Leaf M2 signed M3.
15 woodcuts, including 1 on title page copied from Trepperel and Jehannot 1525 edition of Ogier le Danois.
"Galien" printed in bottom margin on first leaf of each quire.
Part of a group of undated chivalric works printed by Bonfons all ascribed to [1550].
Colophon, leaf [con]1r.
Title page printed in black and red.
Bonfons printer's device, leaf [con]4v.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C⁶ D-E⁴ F⁸ G-X⁴ y-z [et] [con]⁴: 110 leaves. Leaf M2 signed M3.
15 woodcuts, including 1 on title page copied from Trepperel and Jehannot 1525 edition of Ogier le Danois.
"Galien" printed in bottom margin on first leaf of each quire.
Part of a group of undated chivalric works printed by Bonfons all ascribed to [1550].
Description
[110] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 17.5 cm. (quarto)
Provenance
Joseph-Antoine Crozat (1699-1750), signature (title page), sale Paris, 1751, lot 2017; Jean-Louis, Baron d'Heiss (active 1741-1785), sale Paris, 22 July 1782; Richard Heber (1773-1833), sale Sotheby's, part IX, 11 April 1836, lot 1274; G. Gancia Rare Books, Brighton, embossed stamp (rear fly leaf); William Morris (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown), sale Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898, lot 462; Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923), bookplate (front pastedown); Maurice Desgeorge (b. 1867), of Lyon, bookplate (front fly leaf); Silvain S. Brunschwig, monogram booklabel (front pastedown), sale Geneva, 28 March 1955, lot 413; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Konstantinopel Rare Books, Sept. 2018.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled red morocco by Bauzonnet.
Classification
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Department