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Doctrine des Moeurs Qui Represents en Cent Tableaux
1683001262Paris: A. Soubron 1683. Full Calf. Very Good. 14 412 pp. 100 emblem plates all full page. 12mo. 6 by 4 inches. Decorative devices head and foot pieces throughout in the form of bouquets friezes vases baskets as well as decorated letter at the beginning of each section 100 in all. Plates are wonderful baroque woodcuts each illustrating a moral. This would appear to be a second or third edition the first being in 1646. Brunet II 1658 who describes the work as "now a bit rare" mentions a 1684 edition without citing this earlier one and clearly meaning a different edition. Graesse III 114 mentions a 1681 edition without detail and thus this might essentially be. Tight. With some light scattered soilage but overall impression is clean other than on some of the plates a prior owner wrote Latin translations of the maxims beneath the printed captions -- never affecting the pictorial image. Also old handwritten cursive notes on title and blank verso. Attractively rebound in full modern calf with green and red spine labels. A. Soubron unknown
