Vives, De l'ufficio del marito, Venice, 1546, Venetian brown morocco gilt by the Cicero Binder for Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle

8vo (165 x 108 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: *-2*⁸ a-z⁸ A-B⁸: 216 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device repeated on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials.

binding: Venetian light brown morocco (171 x 113 mm), c. 1547, by the Cicero Binder, a Granvelle (Piquard Type C) binding with open frame formed by 2 fillets and multiple blind fillets, inner fillet with excedrae, small gilt fleuron at inside corners, shaped cartouche in centre formed by a gilt fillet with large fleurons finials at top and bottom and smaller ones and sides and 4 inner points, title in gold in centre, traces of 2 pairs of ties, gilt edges with twin dots gauffered around sides, purple label across upper fore-edge with title painted in gold. (Extremities slightly rubbed.)

provenance: Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras (later Cardinal de Granvelle) (1517-1586), with his armorial stamp on the verso of title-page, by descent to—Count de La Baume-Saint Amour, (d. 1707), who sold a large portion of Granvelle's library in 1664 to—Jean-Baptiste Boisot (1639-1694), Abbot of St-Vincent at Besanςon (with sixteenth- or seventeenth-century inventory numbers "104", "167", and "3280" at head of title, and strip at head of upper endleaf cut away, probably removing the ownership inscription of J.B. Boisot)—Bibl. Château Saint-Ylie, Jura, founded by Jean-Antoine de Tinseau (1745- 1782), Eveque de Belley et de Nevers, sale, Delbergue-Cormont & Adolphe Labitte, Paris, 3 November, 1869, lot 1166—Baron de LaRoche-Lacarelle (1816-1887), bookplate—Maurice Delestre & Émile Paul, L. Huard et Guillemin, Paris, 2-9 February 1891, lot 156—Librairie Damascène Morgand, part I (Paris 1893), item 361; Librairie Damascène Morgand, Bulletin mensuel - No. 49, February 1900 (Paris 1900), item 37903—Major J.R. Abbey (1894-1969), his bookplate and manuscript inventory number/ date of acquisition (15 March 1949), his sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1965, lot 677, £320 to Jean Hugues—Costia Zafiropulo (1917-2001), sale, Paris, 3 December 1993, lot 28. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 863747; Edit16 CNCE 36114; reproduced in Hobson, French and Italian Collectors, no. 132; Hobson, Renaissance Book Collectors, Appendix 7, no. 15; T.K. Brooker, "Identifying Books by Colors" in Bibliophilies et reliures: mélanges offerts à Michel Wittock (Brussels 2006), pp. 65-107 (Appendix 4: Library of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle. Types of Venetian bindings - 1547 shipment. Type C, no. 28)