Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Emblemata, collation: A-K8 L4 complete, woodcut device on title within woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and elaborate woodcut borders, many by ‘Pierre Vase’ (i.e. Pierre Eskrich), first 2 decorations and initial partially coloured in red, later brown morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, by Hardy, g.e., 8vo (175 x 115mm.), Lyon, Mathias Bonhomme for Guillaume Rouillé, 1548.*** Lovely copy of this important edition with a distinguished provenance. This is the Rouillé issue of the Lyonese printing by Bonhomme, which incorporates the new 'second series' of emblems (first printed by Aldus in Venice in 1546), and rearranges them by subject. This is also the first appearance, at least within the familiar elaborate borders (see Praz pp.249-50), of the ubiquitous series of woodcuts by Pierre Vase, modelled on earlier cuts by Bernard Salomon, and the anonymous Aldine images of 1546.Provenance: Jean Francois Meinart (ownership inscription on title verso written in gold and dated 1553, the first initial also in gold); Edouard Rahir (bookplate removed); Otto Schäfer (sale, 1 November 1995, lot 4); Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow (bookplate).Literature: Landwehr Romanic 37; Green 31; Mortimer French 15; Rawles & Saunders F.020.