Accession number:
PML 529
Uniform title:
Livret des consolacions.
Published:
Paris : imprime par maistre Guy Marchant, Lan de grace .M. cccc. ycvii. le v. iour de Mars [5 March 1497/1498]
Description:
[72] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 15 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, with Marchant's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf i8r: Cy finiste livre des consolcions contre toutes tribulacions. Imprime par maistre Guy marchant demourant au Champ Gaillart a Paris. Lan de grace .M. cccc. ycvii. le v. iour de Mars.
Printed in Marchant's types 5:180G and 12:82G.
Signatures: a-i⁸: 72 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Woodcuts.
Most initials are printed but some blank initial spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.8 x 8.8 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English limp vellum with laced corner detail (14.5 x 10 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, where required. Annotations:
Provenance:
Unidentified shelfmark or sale number (perhaps Lauder?) label: 62, blue rectangular frame on paper label with perforated edges (front pastedown); Thomas N. Dick-Lauder, bookplate and stamp on binding with monogram: "T N D L", his sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 1896, purchased by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso) and bibliographical notes: No. 230, 26/6/96 (front endleaf 1 recto), entire library purchased by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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