Accession number:
PML 502
Published:
[Paris] : [Antoine Vérard], [approximately 1493]
Description:
[36] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Vérard's type 3:117G.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁶ D⁸ E⁶: 36 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Dated by CIBN (correcting GW's transcription); GW and Goff date about 1490.
Translated by Guillaume Tardif.
34 woodcuts, with repetitions.
The Paris BN copy has a leaf after the title with Tardif's dedication to Charles VIII.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.6 x 18.5 cm.
Binding:
18th-century French gilt-tooled calf over paper boards (25 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Derome (inscription dating rebinding to about 1750, front endleaf 2 recto); hinges repaired. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Les apologues et fables de Laurens Valle translatees de latin en francois
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Paul Girardot de Préfond (d. ca. 1800), armorial bookplate and gilt name label (front pastedown), 1st collection; his sale, Paris, 9 May 1757, lot 827 for fr.12 [inscriptions: "sold in 1757" and erased pencil inscription: "[???] 1757" (not visible under UV) (front endleaf 2 recto), thus was likely purchased by an English collector/bookseller]; unidentified price: 1.16.0 (front endleaf 2 recto); unidentified shelf mark: G.4 (front endleaf 1 verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: rl/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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