| Description |
126, [14] leaves : ill., port. ; 12 cm. (16mo) |
| Note |
Signatures: a-q⁸ r¹². |
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Woodcut on h4v is inverted. |
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Possible variant: Adams, Rawles and Saunders (p. 398) report that b5 is missigned b5 rather than bv (i.e. missigned with arabic rather than roman numeral) which is untrue of this variant. |
| Indexed In: |
Adams, Rawles and Saunders. French emblem books, F.521 |
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USTC, 10674 |
| Provenance |
Yates, Thompson and Bright. Lot 159 in sale of.
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Yates, Samuel Ashton Thompson, 1842-1903. Bookplate.
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Christie, Manson & Woods. Acquired via.
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| Place & Date |
Paris 1564
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| Printer/Binder |
Du Chemin, Nicolas, 1515?-1576.
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| Copy specific |
Provenance: acquired by unknown member of Bright, Thompson and Yates families at some point from 1800s to 1940s - exact provenance unknown ; Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates (1842-1903): bookplate on front pastedown ; University of Glasgow: lot 159 in "Yates, Thompson and Bright: a family of bibliophiles Wednesday 16 July 2014" (London: Christie's, 2014). |
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Annotations: Author's name "[S]ceve" added in washed out red ink in an early hand to portrait on a1v; various booksellers' marks? and possible price codes on front pastedown, "I/3 G5", front free endpaper verso, "220" and "17670/909" and rear free endpaper, "col. AD/BQ". |
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Binding: 19th century brown straight-grained morocco; double-gilt fillet perimeter border and single gilt fillet board edges; gilt decoration on spine with title, place and date; full-gilt edges covering earlier red-dyed edges; heavily washed and trimmed; repair to edge of p. 101; worming damage to lower inner edge of leaves 70 onwards for several pages. |
| Library Class |
Sp Coll S.M. Add. 467
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| Subject |
Emblems -- Early works to 1800.
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Emblem Books, French.
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| Alt Title |
Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu
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Délie, object de plus haulte vertu
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Délie, objet de plus haute vertu
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Délie, object de plus haute vertu
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