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151762289Paris: François Regnault 1517. Title printed in red and black with printer's woodcut device elephant and monogram; text in black letter with criblé initials. a-y8Z2. 186 leaves misfoliated i-clii cliii-clxxviii. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Nineteenth-century floral-patterened boards. Printer's device on title page tinted in an early hand title slightly soiled otherwise a pleasant crisp copy. Title printed in red and black with printer's woodcut device elephant and monogram; text in black letter with criblé initials. a-y8Z2. 186 leaves misfoliated i-clii cliii-clxxviii. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Lovely example of this popular devotional first printed in Lyon 1503 and several times thereafter through the early part of the 16th century. Regnault the Parisian printer first printed it in 1508. Rare -- Not in OCLC; not in RLIN; not in Adams; the only copies we have found were in the British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale François Regnault unknown books
1511401752Paris: Jean Barbier for François Regnault 1511. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. 4to 142 x 210 mm. Title printed in red and black 7 metalcut illustrations and borders. Contemporary English limp blind-tooled calf boards removed early manuscript pastedowns preserved; cloth folding case. Back cover detached. Provenance: early manuscript annotations extensive at beginning and end; William Morris 1834-1896 Kelmscott House bookplate his sale Sotheby's 5 December 1898 lot 1092 to Chadwick for £6 15s.; John Camp Williams bookplates his sale American Art Association 6 November 1929 lot 1156; purchased from Thomas Taylor 1978. Third edition. The 1507 first edition printed at Saluzzo by Giacomo de' Circhi and Sisto Somasco and the Lyons 1508 edition of Étienne Gueynard both employed woodcuts. In Barbier's edition for Regnault up to one dozen small metal plates combined to form each of the large subjects and frames in the final composite images. The subjects include the Descent from the Cross the Dance of Death and representations of saints. Giovanni Lodovico Vivaldi whose name appears on the verso of the title-page above Andreas de Soncino's preface dedicates the work to the Marquess of Salluzzo Ludovico II 1438-1504 and his second wife Marguérite de Foix. A Dominican monk and professor of theology from Mondovi Vivaldi moved to Lombardy to act as their adviser and confessor. His collaboration in this text with Bernardino Dardano represents a "defining link between theological and humanistic culture in print" Vinay L'umanesimo subalpino nel secolo XV 1935 p.107. See Harvard/Mortimer French 552 the Lyons edition. Renouard Imprimeurs & Libraires Parisiens du XVIe siècle 185. <br/><br/> Jean Barbier for François Regnault hardcover books
