Accession number:
PML 128873
Published:
Imprimees a Rouen : [Richard Auzoult] pour Robert mace, [between 1498 and 1507].
Description:
[6] leaves : 2 woodcuts ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2002.
Notes:
Title from title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf a5v: Cy finent les demandes ioyeuses par maniere de recreation. Imprimees a Rouen pour Robert mace. Dated from ISTC; GW dates as after 1500, Bechtel as 1500/07.
Auzoult's type not identified in TW or BMC.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut grotesque initial L and Macé's device with woodcut borders, leaf a1r. Accipies woodcut, leaf a1v and woodcut of preacher before a congregation and a food, leaf a6r.
Printed for Macé in Rouen by Richard Auzoult, containing a historiated initial L and a magister cum discipulis woodcut used by Auzoult's successors in the Atelier du bandeau au lion couronné, cf. Fairfax Murray 552.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.3 x 12.4 cm.
Binding:
Modern full green goatskin, by Bauzonnet, 1837.
Provenance:
George Hibbert (1757-1837); his sale, Evans, 16 March 1829, lot 2655 for £1.5.0; Richard Heber (1773-1833); his sale, Sotheby's, part I, 10 April 1834, lot 2194 for £1.13.6; Jérôme Pichon, booklabel with Psalm 142 and notes about HIbbert and Hebber provenance and rebinding in 1837 (front endleaf 2 recto); his sale, Paris, 19 April 1869, lot 482; Bibliotheque Mery de Bellegarde, armorial bookplate; unidentified auction, Paris, 11 Oct. 2001 for fr. 70,000; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Martayan Lan on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, March 2002.
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