Merlin. 1515?. 4°. Rouen: Richard Auzoult, for Michel Angier, Jean Macé and Richard Mace.

1515

Le premier [-second] volume de Merlin.

[Rouen]: On les vent a regnes chiez iehan mace A caen chiez michel angier A rouen chiez richart mace [Colophon:] Nouuellement imprime a Rouen [pr. by the successors of R. Auzoult] pour Iehan mace a Regnes. Et pour Michel angier a Caen. Et pour Richard mace a Rouen, [c. 1515].

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Printed in Rouen for Richard Macé in Rouen, Michel Angier in Caen and Jean Macé in Rennes, printed with the typographical material of the successors of Richard Auzoult.

Probably issued following the publication of a new Parisian edition in 1515.

Volumes 2 and 3 have colophons with similar wording to that of volume 1.

Signature pattern: ‘$i’ and ‘$.ii.’ [= $3].

Catchword pattern: none.

Types: T17 (112mm); B11 (79mm); Rot3 (180mm).

Initials: 18; 25.

Devices: Silvestre 245 (Richard Macé); Silvestre 200 (Michel Angier).

Lombards: 6.0.

Illustrations: woodcut arms of Rouen; woodcut of crowning of Mary; woodcut of scholar and pupil.

Delisle 263–65.

Pierre Aquilon, Bibliographie normande, Auzoult successors, no. 27.

[IS001472]

1074.k.2.