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Andrea Alciato's Emblematum libellus,
Paris,
Chrestien Wechel, 1534 (1st edition)


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This description is based on Entry F.001 in Alison Adams, Stephen Rawles, Alison Saunders, A Bibliography of French Emblem Books (Geneva: Droz, 1999-2002).
Reproduced by kind permission of Librarie Droz.

GUL SMAdd53 A1ro. Actual page height: 162mm
GUL SMAdd53 A1ro. Actual page height: 162mm.

PICTURE: AS IN: http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/alciato/facsimile.php?id=sm53_A1r GUL SMAdd53 A1ro. Actual page height: 162mm.

Collation

8o: A-G8 H4 [$4 (-A1, E4, H4) signed] 60 leaves, pages numbered [1] 2-119 [1].

Fingerprint

I.o- s?em s.co AlMa 3 M.D.XXXIIII.

Contents

A1ro: title; A1vo: dedication: Wechel to Philibert Baboo, ends A2ro, dated 1534; A2vo: dedication: Alciato to Conrad Peutinger; A3ro: emblems begin, and end H4ro; H4vo: mark.

Layout

113 emblems, all illustrated with woodcuts, possibly designed by Mercure Jollat, which with very minor exceptions, are used in all Wechel's editions. This first Wechel edition establishes the pattern for his Latin-only editions: the title appears above the woodcut, and is followed by the text; all but four emblems are printed each within a single page. Text in 'Aldine' italic, 84mm for 20 lines.

GUL SMAdd53 A7vo-A8ro. Actual page height: 162mm
GUL SMAdd53 A7vo-A8ro. Actual page height: 162mm.

Remarks

This edition can be distinguished from the second 1534 edition (F.002) by the absence of pagination errors.

References

Praz, p. 249; Landwehr (Romanic), 12; Green, 7; Tung, 4.

Copies located

A List of Library symbols can be found here.

Fra *BN (2 copies)
Fra *BeBM
Fra PENBA
Ita RBA
UKi *GU (title damaged)
USA *CMalG
USA *DFo (title damaged)

Other copies

Copies of one or other of the two 1534 Wechel editions are recorded at:

Fra DBM
Fra MBvMF
Fra SBNU
Swi BOEBU

 

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