Giovio, Tetrastiques faictz sur les devises, Lyon, 1560, nineteenth-century blue morocco gilt in period style
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GIOVIO, PAOLO & GABRIELE SIMEONI. Tetrastiques faictz sur les devises. Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1560
RA🌺RE COPY OF AN EMBLEM BOOK, known more widely by reprints of this edition.
A mixture of moral emblems and historical figures. This text was published several times, as the plates were intended to be used as models for stained g🧜lass in homes. This may explain the scarcity of surviving copies, if many were destr♈oyed through this use.
This copy was previously in the Yates-Thompson-Bright library, considered the m𝕴ost important private collection of emblem books ever formed.
Small folio (246 x 184 mm). Italic type. 100 numbered leaves. Title in elaborate wo🍰odcut cartouche, 100 plates. (Small repaired marginal tears.)
binding: Nineteenth-centur💝y French dark blue morocco (262 x 193 mm) by Édouard Pagnant, sides gilt in sixteenth-century style with interlacing border, spine gilt in compartments, gilt inner dentelles, edges gilt and marbled, marbled endpapers.
provenance: Librairie Damascène Morgand, Paris, Bulletin mensuel 38, May 1896, item 27602—Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates (1842-1903), ex-libris, by descent to—Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941), family sale, Christie's, London, 16 July 2014, lot 105 (part lot). acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 29086 (listing 2 institutional copies); von Gültlingen X: Rouillé, 476; Baudrier IX: 273; Adams, F-267 (with a comment on rarity); Allan H. Bright, Catalogue of emblem books, and of a few other similar books (Liverpool 1913), p. 8
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