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BRANT, Sebastian (1457-1521). Stultifera Navis (translated by Jacob Locher, with additions by Thomas Beccadelli). Lyons: Jacques Sacon, 28 June '1488' [1498].
First Lyonese edition, the first known work from Sacon's press. The edition is copied nearly page for page from the Marnef edition printed in Paris on 8 March 1498 (GW 5064), and uses the same woodblocks, most of which had first appeared in the first edition of Pierre Riviere's French verse translation (Paris: for de Marnef and Philippi, 1497, GW 5058). (Cf. BMC VIII, pp. 150-51 for a discussion of the priority of these editions). HC 3752; GW 5063; Pellechet 2825; Polain 867; Proctor 8671; BMC VIII, 336 (IA 42173); Goff B-1093.
Chancery quarto (192 x 134mm). Collation: a-t8 u4. 155 leaves (of 156, without final blank). Type: 1:81R. 33 lines and foliation, a few initial spaces with guide-letters. 119 woodcuts, 3 full-page, including 3 repeats (first 2 leaves remargined, the paper repair just touching one letter of sidenote, ink inscription on b3r with associated browning and ink staining with 2 ink spots affecting woodcut of the fool with his books, this staining continuing on the following 30 leaves, before merging with more general staining, heavier to quires g and i, tiny marginal hole to b3). Modern vellum (extremities rubbed). Provenance: 19th-century German annotations on paper label on front pastedown.
First Lyonese edition, the first known work from Sacon's press. The edition is copied nearly page for page from the Marnef edition printed in Paris on 8 March 1498 (GW 5064), and uses the same woodblocks, most of which had first appeared in the first edition of Pierre Riviere's French verse translation (Paris: for de Marnef and Philippi, 1497, GW 5058). (Cf. BMC VIII, pp. 150-51 for a discussion of the priority of these editions). HC 3752; GW 5063; Pellechet 2825; Polain 867; Proctor 8671; BMC VIII, 336 (IA 42173); Goff B-1093.
Chancery quarto (192 x 134mm). Collation: a-t8 u4. 155 leaves (of 156, without final blank). Type: 1:81R. 33 lines and foliation, a few initial spaces with guide-letters. 119 woodcuts, 3 full-page, including 3 repeats (first 2 leaves remargined, the paper repair just touching one letter of sidenote, ink inscription on b3r with associated browning and ink staining with 2 ink spots affecting woodcut of the fool with his books, this staining continuing on the following 30 leaves, before merging with more general staining, heavier to quires g and i, tiny marginal hole to b3). Modern vellum (extremities rubbed). Provenance: 19th-century German annotations on paper label on front pastedown.
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