Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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[Gerson], Quattro libri della imitatione di Christo, Venice, 1540, contemporary French calf gilt, tall, blue-paper copy

Estimate

2,400 - 3,200 GBP

Lot Details

Description

[GERSON, JEAN]. Quattro Libri...della imitatione di Christo, dil dispregio dil mondo, e delle sue vanitadi. Venice: Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio, 1540


TALL, BLUE-PAPER COPY. Other copies on blue paper are in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, D-17131; and Grenoble, Bibliothèques municipales, F.10744 Rés. (Ducoin 3828). Copies once in the possession of Edward Harley (Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, 1744, IV, 14336), Justin, comte de MacCarthy-Reagh (sale, Paris, 27 January–6 May 1817, lot 790), and J.J. et M.J. De Bure (sale, Paris, 16 February–16 March 1837, lot 125), cannot be traced.


For other works printed on blue paper in the present sale, see lots 1596, 1597, and 1599 (Bembo).

8vo (190 x 100 mm). Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-L8: 88 leaves. Woodcut illustration on title-page, woodcut initial, printed on blue paper, tall copy. (Some light spotting and browning, slight loss to corners of A1-2.)


binding: French brown calf (192 x 102 mm), c. 1550, 3 blind fillets around sides, frame of multiple blind fillets, later gilt fleurons at outer corners, composite shape composed of 4 azured trilobes in centre, spine with gilt flower in compartments, edges gilt. (Rebacked, recornered and extensively restored, binding somewhat rubbed and soiled, new pastedowns and endleaves.)


acquisition: Purchased in 1993 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: Edit16 CNCE 66385 (no copy of the edition located in Italy); USTC 802918; Augustin de Backer, Essai bibliographique sur le livre De Imitatione Christi (Liége 1864), p. 111 (refers to the blue paper copy in the MacCarthy-Reagh sale) 

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