Accession number:
PML 789
Published:
Lugduni : Apud Mathiam Bonhomme, 1552.
Description:
118, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm
Notes:
It was translated in the same year into French with the title: L'imagination poëtique.
Verses in Latin and Greek written to accompany pictures most of which were already in Bonhomme's stock--Cf. Preface.
106 woodcuts attributed to Bernard Salomon or Pierre Eskrich; illustration on p. 47 repeated on p. 58; printer's devise explained on p. 10.
First edition.
Binding:
Dark brown morocco with the emblem called on p. 8 of the book Stemma Baborum, i.e. P. Pabou, to whom the book is dedicated.
Inscriptions/Markings:
"Ex libris Pougin c R." written on title page; "Gosford" written on inner cover.
Provenance:
P. Babou; C.R. Pougin; Lord Gosford.
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