Lemaire de Belges, Jean, Illustrations de Gaule. Book 1. 1516. 4°. Paris: Guillaume Desplains, for Jean Lemaire de Belges and Geoffroy de Marnef.

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1516
Lemaire de Belges, Jean, 1473-1524?
[Illustrations de Gaule. Book 1.]
Les Illustrations de Gaule et Singularitez de Troye. Auec les deux epistres de Lamant Verd Composees Par Ian Le Maire de Belges.
[Paris]: [Colophon:] Imprime a Paris [pr. by G. Desplains] ou moys de Septembre. Lan Mil. v.c. et .xii. pour maistre Ian Lemaire Par Geffroy de marnef, [1512 (i.e. 1515 or later)].
4°: A–B⁴ C²; ²A–K⁸.
Printed in Paris for Jean Lemaire de Belges through Geoffroy de Marnef, printed with the typographical material of Guillaume Desplains.
With the text of Le Maire’s 1509 privilege, announced on the title page: ‘Cum priuilegio regio amplissimo’.
With the arms of François Ier on B4v: Abelard dates to 1515/1516, which is confirmed by the typography.
Signature pattern: ‘$’–‘$.iiii.’.
Catchword pattern: none.
Types: Rot6 (190mm); R10 (78mm); Rot47 (80mm); Rot81 (63mm; leaded to 78).
Initials: 15; 22; 28; 36.
Devices: Renouard 719 (G. de Marnef).
Lombards: 7.0; 11.0.
Illustrations: woodcut, arms of François Ier and Anne de Bretagne; woodcut, arms of Marguerite d’Autriche; woodcut, device of Le Maire de Belges.
Abelard, 84–85 (E1).
Inventaire chronologique 1512, no. 387.
[IS000884]G.10249(1).