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Bod-Inc: (M-194)

Merlin

Histoire de la vie, miracles, enchentemens et prophecies de Merlin [French].

 

Imprint

Imprint: Paris: Antoine Vérard, ‘1498' [after July 1503]. Folio.

Remarks: In three volumes: (I) Le premier volume de Merlin. (II) Le seconde volume de Merlin. (III) Les propheties de Merlin. This edition resembles closely Vérard's 1498 edition, but, from the state of the woodcuts and the address, it must be dated [after July 1503].

Collation

Collation: Vol. I: a A–X AA–PP6; vol. III: A6 B2 a–o6 p8 q–z [et] [con]6.

Remarks: Leaf AA1 signed Ai.

References

ISTC: im00498000

BMC: Excluded from BMC;

Proctor: Pr 8460;

Others: Sheppard 6263.

Copies

Copy number: (M-194)(1)

Wanting PP6, presumably blank.

Vol. I only. This copy is of the Vérard 1503 edition, as recorded by Sheppard; Pr records as Pr 8441 (the 1498 edition), rather than Pr 8460.

Binding: Seventeenth-century calf, the spine gold-tooled; red mottled edges. Gilt armorial stamp of d'Estampes de Valençay on both covers: azure, two gyrons in chevron, on a chief argent three ducal coronets.

Size: 278 × 199 × 40 mm.

Size of leaf: 272 × 186 mm.

Provenance: Léonor d'Estampes de Valençay (1589-1651); gilt armorial binding stamp: see Olivier pl. 1663, no. 3. [ ] White; perhaps one of the family of London booksellers listed in Maxted 244-5. William Constable (1721-1791); pencil note on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘1808 May 13th W Constable transferred to G. C. this 1st vol. of Merlin's History, which he bought from White as a curious and rare book. The other vol. of Merlin's Prophecies was bought separate before that'. Remains of bookseller's paper label at the tail of the spine: ‘4[ ]'. Purchased for £3. 13. 6; see Books Purchased (1842), 30.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.56.

Copy number: (M-194)(2)

Vol. III only. This copy is of the Vérard 1503 edition, as recorded by Sheppard; Pr records as Pr 8441 (the 1498 edition), rather than Pr 8460.

Binding: Seventeenth/eighteenth-century calf; both covers decorated with double gold fillets; the spine tooled in gilt with an addorsed and interlocked double ‘G' below a fleur-de-lis; red mottled edges.

Size: 278 × 201 × 37 mm.

Size of leaf: 272 × 186 mm.

Provenance: G. G. (seventeenth/eighteenth century); binding stamp; see note, above. Remains of bookseller's paper label at the tail of the spine: ‘4[0/8]7'. Purchased for £6. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 30.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 6.57.


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