Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
25th November 1882
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/33
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lyons: 12210 12211 12212 12313 12214: France. TERENCE. Le Grant Therence en Francoys, tant en Rime que en Prose, folio, with over 150 bold woodcuts, fine copy in old calf gilt, Arms on the sides, from the Bathurst collection, £10. Paris, Guillaume de Bossozel, 1539 This is one of the most remarkable volumes in the catalogue. Although the woodcuts were here issued for the second time, yet they are from the identical blocks which were used with the Latin Terence printed at Lyons in 1493; and thus represent the most striking and artistic work of illustration produced by the early French school. LE ROMMANT DE LA ROSE. Cy cémance le remant de la rose, ou tout lart damours est enclose, folio, probably the Editio Princeps, and certainly the most ancient edition known, numerous curious woodcuts, but having ten leaves admirably facsemiled by Pilinskt, so as almost to defy detection, BEAUTIFUL COPY in red MOROCCO super extra, covered with gold tooling (parsemé de roses dor), gilt, marbled edges, by Belz-Niedrée, being perhaps his re p’Cuvre, £42. - L. & d. (Lyon par G. Le Roy, cir. 1480-85) EXTREMELY RARE. he copy sold for 1530 fr. in the Yemeniz sale, and another for 2100 fr. in the Double sale. This is the first of the four undated editions with which Brunet commences his description of the fifteenth-century impressions of the Roman de la Rose. And even he speaks doubtfully of the title-leaf bearing the words ‘“ Le Rommant de la Rose,” which he had only seen in MS., but which is found in fine state (apparently the genuine and proper frontispiece) i in the above copy. All the fifteenth-century editions are vastly superior to those of the six- teenth century, in which Clement Marot disfigured the text with his own audacious alterations and interpolations. Brant (Sebastien) La Ner pes Fonz pu Monpez . . . translatee de rime en prose auecqs aulcunes aditions nouuelles par maistre Jehan Drouyn, sm. folio, black letter, over 100 curtous woodcuts, red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Disiaux, fine copy, £60. Lyon, G. Balsarin, 1498 Excessively rare. Brunet only quotes Gaignat’s copy. First edition of the French prose translation. It is not entirely in prose, each subject being preceded by a piece of verse in seven lines summing up the article. The woodcuts are from new blocks engraved by a French hand in ae of the original wood engravings in the German and Latin editions of Basel. LE LIURE DES TROIS FILZ DE ROYS, cxustassavorr DE FRACE, DANGLETERRE, BT DESCOSSE, small folio, lettres yothiques, title printed in red and black, with a large woodcut of the three champions, Philippe, Auffroy, and David, setting forth on horse- back, and numerous large woodcuts throughout the text, the first leaf of text (a 4:) torn and deficient of about sia lines at bottom, in a green vellum binding of the seventeenth century, PROBABLY UNIQUE, £25. Lyon, par Claude Nourry, 1508 (Brant) LA GRAND NEF DES FOLZ. La grad nef des folz du monde en laquelle chascun home sage prenant plaisir de lire les passages des hystoyres dicelle morallement & briefuemét exposees, trouuera & congnoistra plusieurs maniers de folz, &c. 4to. lettres gathiques,