Paris, Homelies, Paris, 1553, nineteenth-century pastiche binding

2 works in one volume, 8vo (165 x 111 mm). Roman and italic type, 27 lines plus headline. (1) collation: AA⁴ A-X⁸ (final leaf blank): 172 leaves. Title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, ruled in red throughout. (2) collation: aa⁴ a-m⁸ (final leaf blank): 100 leaves. Contents as above, manuscript corrections to c7r and i1r. (Some light staining, final quire slightly creased.)

binding: French brown calf over wooden boards (171 x 117 mm), nineteenth-century pastiche, covers elaborately tooled in an interlaced strapwork design brought into relief by the use of black and white enamel, the whole worked in silver tooling with the arms of the Duc de Guise painted on the upper cover and those of the Prince de Condé on the lower cover, flat spine tooled in silver with leafy tools azured, stubs from 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt and gauffered to an arabesque design heightened by darkened background. (Spine heavily repaired and repainted, pastedowns and endleaves renewed, lacking ties.)

provenance: Henry Huth (1815-1878) and Alfred Huth (1850-1910), "Ex Musaeo Huthii" bookplate to upper pastedown, W.C. Hazlitt & F.S. Ellis, The Huth Library. A catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings (London 1880), IV, p. 1093, their sale, Sotheby's, part VI, 13 July 1917, lot 5561, £6 to J. & J. Leighton—Sotheby's, 14-19 November 1918, lot 571, to Francis Edwards, London. acquisition: Purchased in 1986 from Marshall Field, Chicago. references: (1) USTC 1114; (2) USTC 1115; Catalogue of Bookbindings, Burlington Arts Club, 1891, p. 39, no. 15, pl. L (catalogue slip pasted to upper endleaf)