Les oeuures francoises de Ioachim Du-Bellay gentil-homme Angeuin, & poëte excellent de ce temps. Reueuës, & de nouueau augmentees de plusieurs poësies non encores auparauant imprimees. Au roy treschrestien Charles IX.
Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560)
Category
Books
Date
1573
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3130821
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 559, [1] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7115. Water staining throughout. Leaves b1-4 containing the list of contents are mis-bound at the end between leaves Æ1 and 2. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. sed p. 554, &c post indicem" [i.e. catalogue code and mis-binding note, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription in Greek at head of title page: "Το ηορσιηον ου παρφοχζον"[?] [= To ēorsiēon ou parphochzon?]. Binding: seventeenth-century full calf; sewn onto four cords; covers have double gilt fillet border with small gilt cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges and on turn-ins; spine rebacked (twentieth-century) in sheepskin with original gold-tooled spine retained; brown sheepskin label with gilt title on spine. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Pencil note on verso of front free endpaper: "Repaired at Cambridge, ?1956".
Makers and roles
Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560), author Guillaume Aubert (1534-1596), editor