ROUILLÉ, Guillaume

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ROUILLÉ, Guillaume
La première [et seconde] partie du promptuaire des médailles des plus renommées personnes qui ont été depuis le début du monde: avec brieve description de leurs vies et faicts, recueillie des bons auteurs [Lyon, 1553]. Small in-4, full speckled calf, spine ribbed and decorated. Missing the title page. (6/8), 172, (4) pp. - 247, (7) pp. some paper tears, old restorations, brown trace in the outer margin of the title page of the second part and large damp stains. Some period annotations in ink. 2 parts in one volume of the first French edition of this universal biography which runs from Adam to Joan of Albret and Henry II. It is illustrated with Rouillé's mark in the first part, with an emblematic figure and a woodcut of the Annunciation at the head of the second part. 824 portraits in medallion drawn by George Reverdy, Corneille de la Haye and other master engravers. The figures of women are often the most successful. Didot in his Essay (p. 245) praises the artistic character of this illustration and says that one sees there "the wood engraving endeavouring to fight with the intaglio to render the model of the figures by means of a work of often crossed size." The three original editions (Latin, French, - the one we present here - Italian) "admirably printed and drawn on excellent paper, are more sought after by the amateurs, indicates Baudrier, than the editions of 1577 to 1582 more complete but with the defective pulling." As in this copy, the initials of Guillaume Rouillé are, in the Harvard library copy, stamped at the head of his dedication to Marguerite de Navarre. Armorial bookplate Montmorency. Manuscript bookplate on the title page and some comments in the margins. Didot, Essai - Baudrier 9, 50
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