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Title

Les regnars trauersant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde / composees par Sebastien Brand, lequel composa la nef des folz dernierement ; et plusieurs nouuelles choses composees par autres facteurs.

Author

Bouchet, Jean, 1476-approximately 1558.

Publication

Paris : On les vend en la Rue Sainct Iacques a lenseigne dela roze blanche couronnee, par Philippe Le Noir, l'an [1522]

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Details

Additional Authors

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521.

Description

[268] p. : ill.; 19 cm. (4to)

Uniform Title

Regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde

Alternative Title

Regnars traversant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde

Subjects

• Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, > Duke of, > 1833-1908 > Provenance
• Woodcuts > France > 16th century
• Fables, French
• Bookbinding (Binding) > Great Britain > 19th century
• Animals in human situations
• Foxes in art

Genre/Form

• Woodcuts – France – 16th century.
• Bookbinding (Binding) – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

• Verse and prose; p. [139-267] chiefly Latin prose and French verse in parallel columns.
• The authorship of Jean Bouchet is disclosed in an acrostic verse "Exortation ou par les premieres lettres des lignes trouuerez le nom de lacteur de ce p[re]sent liure: [et] le lieu d[e] sa natiuite" (p. [66]): these initials make "Iehan Boucet Natif de Poictiers."
• Place and date of publication from colophon, which reads in part: Nouuelleme[n]t imprime a Paris par Philipe Le Noir libraire [et] lung des grans relieurs iurez en luniuersite de Paris ... l'an mil cinq cens vingt deux, le xxiii. iour de iuillet.
• First published by A. Vérard in an undated folio and 2 undated quarto editions, ca. 1503-1504. Cf. Murray, C.F. French books, 57; Mortimer, R. French 16th century, 111.
• Signatures: a⁸ b-f⁴ g⁶ h⁴ i⁶ k-q⁴ r⁸ s-z⁴ [et]⁴ A-E⁴ F⁶.
• Title page and cut on p. [16] printed in red and black.
• Illustrations: 22 prints from 18 blocks (1 on t.p.) : woodcut ; image 10 x 10 cm. or smaller. Title page cut repeated twice; 2 small cuts each repeated once. Subjects include foxes in human situations. Some are copied from earlier editions; cf. reproductions in Mortimer and in Murray.
• Printer's device (on p. [268]): 1 print : woodcut ; image 10 x 7 cm.
• Historiated and floriated criblé and other ornamental initials.

Indexed In (note)

• Brunet
• Grässe
• Index Aureliensis
• Tchemerzine
• BM STC French, 1470-1600
• Moreau

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1522 94-253

OCLC

NYPG94-B27286

Author

Bouchet, Jean, 1476-approximately 1558.

Title

Les regnars trauersant les perilleuses voyes des folles fiances du monde / composees par Sebastien Brand, lequel composa la nef des folz dernierement ; et plusieurs nouuelles choses composees par autres facteurs.

Imprint

Paris : On les vend en la Rue Sainct Iacques a lenseigne dela roze blanche couronnee, par Philippe Le Noir, l'an [1522]

Indexed In:

Brunet, I, col. 1153

Grässe, I, p. 507

Index Aureliensis, 112.856

Tchemerzine, II, p. 4

BM STC French, 1470-1600, p. 77

Moreau, III, 274

Local Note

Cut on p. [86] is repeated in a faint impression, rotated 90°, p. [146], apparently by accident.

Binding: Red morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford.

Provenance: Spencer Compton, 8th Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth (armorial bookplate).

Local Subject

Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of, 1833-1908 Provenance.

Added Author

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521. Attributed name

Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1522 94-253