Accession number:
PML 500
Published:
[Paris] : Jean Du Pre, [approximately 1492]
Description:
[88] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Du Pré's device, leaf a1r. City and date from ISTC.
Printed in Du Pré's types 12:112G, 15:205G, and 16:135G.
Signatures: a-l⁸: 88 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
2 woodcuts and printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.9 x 12.7 cm.
Binding:
19th-century French gilt-tooled full blue goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Bauzonnet (before 1841). Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Les lunettes des Princes
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (1 initial on leaf a2r, remainder are printed). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified English sale catalogue (Sotheby's?) description, lot 195 (front endleaf 1 verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 327, 27/11/1900 and price code: rr/-/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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