HOLBEIN, HANS, THE YOUNGER. 1497-1543., CORROZET, GILLES. 1510-1568.
Historiarum veteris testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyons: Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel [for J. and F. Frellon], 1539.
CORROZET, GILLES. 1510-1568. Historiarum veteris testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyons: Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel [for J. and F. Frellon], 1539.
Small 4to (171 x 123 mm). 94 woodcut illustrations after Holbein, some cut by Hans Lützelburger, each approx. 60 by 89 mm, with Latin text above and French quatrains below. Woodcut device on title and a larger version on last leaf. Light brown blind tooled morocco by Bernard Middleton.
Second edition of the icones and first complete edition containing 94 woodcuts, including the additional subjects in Kings XII and Isaiah I. "The first [edition] to contain the complete set of ninety-four blocks and the French verse text. The word "instrumenti" in the title of the 1538 edition has been changed here to "Testamenti". To Frellon's preface are added Nicolas Bourbon's verse address to the reader and distich naming Holbein as the artist of the set of woodcuts, and a verse preface and postscript by Gilles Corrozet" (Mortimer/Harvard French, 278); Brunet III:252.
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Historiarum veteris testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyons: Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel [for J. and F. Frellon], 1539.
CORROZET, GILLES. 1510-1568. Historiarum veteris testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyons: Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel [for J. and F. Frellon], 1539.
Small 4to (171 x 123 mm). 94 woodcut illustrations after Holbein, some cut by Hans Lützelburger, each approx. 60 by 89 mm, with Latin text above and French quatrains below. Woodcut device on title and a larger version on last leaf. Light brown blind tooled morocco by Bernard Middleton.
Second edition of the icones and first complete edition containing 94 woodcuts, including the additional subjects in Kings XII and Isaiah I. "The first [edition] to contain the complete set of ninety-four blocks and the French verse text. The word "instrumenti" in the title of the 1538 edition has been changed here to "Testamenti". To Frellon's preface are added Nicolas Bourbon's verse address to the reader and distich naming Holbein as the artist of the set of woodcuts, and a verse preface and postscript by Gilles Corrozet" (Mortimer/Harvard French, 278); Brunet III:252.
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