Lemaire de Belges, Jean, Illustrations de Gaule. Book 2. 1512. 4°. Paris: Guillaume Desplains, for Jean Lemaire de Belges, Hylaire Malican and Geoffroy de Marnef.

August 1512

Lemaire de Belges, Jean, 1473-1524?

[Illustrations de Gaule. Book 2.]

Le second liure des illustrations de Gaule: et des singularitez de Troye.

[Paris]: [Colophon:] Imprime a Paris [pr. by G. Desplains] ou moys de Aoust. Lan Mil. ccccc. et .xii. Par le commandement de maistre Ian le maire pour Geuffray de marnef et par Hylaire malican libraire demourant a Bloys, [1512].

4°: a⁴ b–g⁸ h⁶.

Printed in Paris for Jean Lemaire de Belges through Geoffroy de Marnef and Hylaire Malican in Blois, printed with the typographical material of Guillaume Desplains.

Damage to the device indicates a date of 1512/1513.

Royal privilege to Le Maire de Belges for 3 years, dated Blois, 1 May 1512, with a statement assigning it to Marnef and Malican.

Signature pattern: ‘$.i.’–‘$.iiii.’.

Catchword pattern: none.

Types: Rot6 (190mm); Rot47 (81mm); Rot81 (63mm); T17 (112mm).

Initials: 28; 36.

Devices: Renouard 719 (G. de Marnef).

Lombards: 11.0.

Illustrations: woodcut, arms of Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne; woodcut, device of Le Maire de Belges.

Abelard, 97–98 (B2, with some sheets of A2).

Inventaire chronologique 1512, no. 391.

Répertoire bibliographique, Blois, Malican, no. 1.

[IS000885]

G.10249(2).