Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Giovio, Tetrastiques faictz sur les devises, Lyon, 1560, nineteenth-century blue morocco gilt in period style

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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GIOVIO, PAOLO & GABRIELE SIMEONI. Tetrastiques faictz sur les devises. Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1560


RARE 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 glass in homes. This may explain the scarcity of surviving copies, if many were destroyed through this use.


This copy was previously in the Yates-Thompson-Bright library, considered the most important private collection of emblem books ever formed.

Small folio (246 x 184 mm). Italic type. 100 numbered leaves. Title in elaborate woodcut cartouche, 100 plates. (Small repaired marginal tears.)


binding: Nineteenth-century 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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