Centi-folium stultorum in quarto. Oder Hundert Ausbündige Narren/ in Folio. Und in einer Alapatrit-Pakateten zum Schau-Essen / mit hundert schoenen Kupffer-Stichen / zur ehrlichen Ergoezung / und nuslisslichen Zeit Bertreibung /fowohl froelich als melancholischen Gemuthern aufgesezt; Auch mit einer delicaten Bruehe vieler artigen Historien / lustiger Fablen / kurtzweiliger Discursen / und erbaulichten Sitten-Lehren angerichtet. Cum Licentia Superiorum. Wienn Zu finden ben Johann Carl Megerle / Universitäts. Buchhandler in Gundl-Hof. Und Ben Johann Christoph Weigel Kupfferstechern in Nürnberg / Gedruckt ben Christoph Lercher / Universitäts-Buchdruckern IM LUst Igen Iahr aLs DIese Narren-Scaar erkohnen gar. 1709�
17091Vienna: Christoph Lercher 1709. First edition. Fair. Johann Christoph Weigel. The date of publication is revealed from the chronosticon given on the title page completed here with bracketed letters. Johann Ulrich Megerle July 2 1644 December 1 1709 is also known as Gautentius Hilarion Hilarius von Freudberg Theophilus Mariophilus. First edition emblem book 20.5 cm x 16cm quarto; engraved allegorical frontispiece; title-page in black and red letter; vi; 404; iv 101 leaves of full-page engravings. Johann Christoph Weigel / Kupfferstechern in Nürnberg caption legends engraved or hand-written under each image. Errors of pagination: p. 188 is missing the page number; p. 192 reads as 912; p. 307 reads as 407; p. 318 reads as 218; p. 320 reads as 230; p. 374 reads as 274; p. 376 reads as 176; p. 378 reads as 278; p. 403 reads as 401.This copy is bound in contemporary quarter vellum on light-gray marbled paper boards with a hand-lettered spine. The title-page has been repaired and reinforced with heavier paper as are some of the introductory pages and plates. Plate No. 48 is printed on very heavy paper with a handwritten legend. The other plates have engraved legends. The edges of the first nine pages have been expertly reinforced. Apart from a crack in the uppermost front hinge this binding is in fair condition. Inside the back cover is a triangular stamp reading in part ZUR AUSFUR FREIGEGEBEN. Pencil annotations inside the front cover are a title index of the emblem plates and the calculus of the chronosticon.Extremely rare complete. Old repairs noted this is a good bright tight copy. Not in Praz or Landwehr. See Gerhard Dünnhaupt F5.1.; Bertsch 52a 1; Goedeke III 240 26. See also William Sallochs Catalog 365 Sept. 1980: 100 fools with their occupations preoccupations and vanities described and illustrated by Weigel. An old booksellers catalog entry pasted down on the verso of the initial blank states: In 150 Exemplaren gedruckt als Festgabe für die Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen. The last plate is blank intentionally to provoke the reader. Christoph Lercher hardcover books
