Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Les Emblemes, second bilingual edition, Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1540
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Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Les Emblemes...en rime francoys, second bilingual edition, collation: A-P8 Q4, complete with final leaf (blank except for woodcut device on verso), woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations, occasional light foxing and soiling, some light water-staining, later green morocco, gilt, g.e., 8vo (165 x 102mm.), Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1540.*** A handsome copy of this edition with French translation by Jean Le Fevre, first published by Wechel in 1536 (the earliest emblem texts in French), but here rendered in roman type, rather than lettre batarde.Provenance: Henry Yates Thompson; S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate); Allan Heywood Bright (sale at Christie's 2014, lot 43).Literature: Landwehr Romanic 21; Green 17 (his collation copy, when in the Thingwall Library); Rawles & Saunders F.0009.
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Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Les Emblemes, second bilingual edition, Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1540
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