Les Illustrations de Gaule et Singularitez de Troye

Jean Lemaire de Belges

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Stout folio. ff. [8], lvi (i.e. lix), [5]; ff. [2], xxx (i.e. xlii), [2]; ff. [4], xlii, [14]; ff. [44]. Signatures: a-b4 A-J6 K4 L6; 2a-f 6 g4 h6; 3a4 b-g6 2H6; 2A6 B8 AA-EE6. Near-contemporary full soft Spanish calf. Contains bookplate of Arthur Auguste Brolemann. Midway through the third book appears the 17th-century ownership entry ‘Don Pedro de Velasco / Espanol / nacionolo / in / Salamanca,’ and there are a few other manuscript notes in the same hand, including ‘El Rey Don Enrique el quarto’ on the title and nine lines of (Spanish) verse at the end. Elegant gothic-letter typography with large and small woodcut initials, and a red and black title page with a remarkable wide historiated border involving three manneken-pis...