PARADIN (Claude). Heroic Emblems. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 155 - Lot 132

PARADIN (Claude). Heroic Emblems. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1557. 8vo, blue morocco, Jansenist style, lace lining, gilt edges (Bernasconi). Second French edition, partly original, of this exquisite Renaissance book of emblems. It is adorned with 182 emblems woodcut by Bernard Salomon, known as “le Petit Bernard,” 64 of which were specially engraved for this edition; the title is set within the attractive frame known as “à l’Autruche.” (Cartier, no. 379; Landwehr, Romanic, no. 564.) The first edition, published by the same publisher in 1551, was adorned with only 118 woodcuts. Handwritten bookplate, almost completely faded at the end: A moy Brignolle. From the library of Dr. Périer (1977, no. 67). Worn copy; restoration in the title margin, on folios a2 and a8 (with lettering retouched), and at the corner of one of the last folios. Pagination and headbands slightly damaged by the bookbinder’s knife on a few folios.

Estimate:£857.38

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