Les premices, ou Le I liure des Prouerbes epigrãmatizez, ou, des Epigrammes prouerbializez. C'est à dire, signez et seellez par les prouerbes françois: aucuns aussi par les grecs & latins, ou autres, pris de quelcun des langages vulgaires. Rengez en lieux communs. Le tout par Henri Estienne.
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)
Category
Books
Date
1594
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3221676
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 207, [1] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7393. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "Stephanus (Henr.)" [i.e. author catalogue entry note, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Green stained (or heavily sprinkled) textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne (1531-1598)