Champier, Symphorien, Grans croniques des gestes. 1516. 2°. Paris: Gillet Couteau, for Jehan de La Garde.

27 March 1516

Champier, Symphorien, 1472?-approximately 1535.

Les grans croniques des gestes ... des ... ducz et princes ... de Sauoye et piemont. ... Champier.

[Paris]: nouuellement imprimees a Paris pour Iehan de la garde. [Colophon:] Imprimees a paris [pr. by G. Cousteau] Lan mil cinq cens et seize le .xxvii^e iour de mars pour Iehan de la garde libraire demourant sus le pont nostre dame a lenseigne sainct Iehan leuangeliste Ou au palais, [1516].

2°: ã⁶ b⁸ c–z⁶.

Printed in Paris for Jean de La Garde with the typographical material of Gillet Cousteau.

Device Renouard 14 came from Verard’s material and may have been adopted by Cousteau who uses Verard’s old address.

Parliamentary privilege to J. de La Garde for 2 years (3 requested) issued on 10 March 1515 (1516 n.s.?), specifying the maximum price as 8 ‘soulz parisis’.

Signature pattern: ‘$i’–‘$iiii’.

Catchword pattern: none.

Types: B3 (105mm); B12 (84mm); Rot94 (55mm).

Initials: 15 black; 19 black; 28 strapwork; 29 typecaps; 30×25.

Devices: Renouard 536 (J. de La Garde); Renouard 14 (G. Cousteau?).

Illustrations: xylographic title; woodcuts; woodcut, 128×104 mm, of scholar at desk.

Inventaire chronologique 1516, no. 1300.

[IS000647]

C.38.g.9.