Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Martial d'Auvergne, Aresta amorum, Paris, 1544, Parisian tan calf, L'Angelier publisher's binding, plain edges

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5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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MARTIAL D'AUVERGNE. Aresta amorum. Cum erudita Benedicti Curtii Symphoriani explanatione. Accessit huic editioni locupletissimus rerum ac vocabulorum Index. Paris: Jean David, René Houdouyn, & Pasquier Le Tellier for Charles L’Angelier, 1544


Another copy of the third edition of Martial D'Auvergne's famous parody of French legal jargon, IN A CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN PUBLISHER'S BINDING.

8vo (166 x 102 mm). Roman type. collation: A-2D8 2E4: 220 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, repeated on recto of final leaf.


binding: Parisian tan calf publisher’s display binding (176 x 113 mm), early 1540s, outer and inner rectangular frames of multiple blind fillets, in the corners a large gilt fleuron, in the center the gilt lozenge-shaped larger mark of the Brothers L'Angelier; the standing Christ child flanked by 2 kneeling angels who are tied together by a true-love knot, the initials C and L (for Charles L'Angelier) above the angels’ heads, surrounded by a cartouche inscribed with the punning device "LES.ANGES.LIES", and a small cherub’s head above and below. (Upper endleaf renewed, spine ends and corners neatly restored).


provenance: "Ex Libris Angeli Clerici", inscription in a contemporary hand to front pastedown—Christie's, Paris, 29 November 2002, lot 103. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: BP16 111790; USTC 57969; Adams, M-686; Georges Colin, "Les Marques de libraires et d'éditeurs dorées sur des reliures" in Bookbindings & other bibliophily: Essays in honour of Anthony Hobson (Verona 1994), pp. 93-97 (this binding) 

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