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UNNOTED 1ST USE OF WELL-KNOWN ILLUSTRATION BLOCKS
PRINTED ON VELLUM & WITH NEARLY 100 WOODCUTS

[BOOK OF HOURS - ROMAN USAGE - FRENCH].

Les P(re)sentes Heures a lUsaige de Ro(m)me ...
Rouen, Jehan le Marchant at the sign of "Des Deux Licornes"; Paris, [Francois Regnault] at the sign of "De lElephant" (colophon: printed for Francois Regnault, Paris & Jehan Marchant, Rouen), 1537. (16 x 9 cm). Printed in red and black throughout, with Marchant's nearly full-page woodcut publisher's device (2 unicorns & "ILM") on the title-page, 12 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations for the months of the calendar, 44 full-page or nearly full-page woodcut illustrations plus 3 repeats (mostly 10 x 7 cm), 2 slightly smaller (7 x 5 cm) and about 34 much smaller (2.5 x 2 to 5 x 4 cm). 26 of the large blocks are signed "IM" for Jehan Le Marchant. Further with more than 100 decorative woodcut initials from several series (12-33 mm), hundreds of 1, 2 and 3-line uncial initials printed in red. Set in 2 textura types with many words or passages in red. Printed on vellum. Gold-tooled calf (ca. 1800), marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With the armorial bookplate of and a genealogical inscription by Edward Paston (ca. 1782-post 1826) of Norfolk, grandfather of the 7th Baronet Paston-Bedingfeld.
  € 29500


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