Shelfmark
Sa2.5.17
Author
Title
Champ fleury. Au quel est contenu Lart & Science de ladeue & vraye proportio des lettres attiques, quo[i] dit autreme[n]t lettres autiques, & vulgairement lettres romaines proportionnees selon le corps & visage humain.
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris : par Maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges ... et par Giles Gourmont, [28th April] 1529.
Physical description
[8], lxxx leaves : ill. (copper engraving) ; 25cm. (2)
Note
Colophon: "Le mercredi.xxviii. Iour du Mois Dapuril. Lan mil cinqa cens. XXIX. Pour Maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges, autheur dedict Liure, & libraire demorata Paris, qui le vent sus Petit Pont a Lenseigne du Pot Caffe. Et pour Giles Gourmont aussi Libraire demorant au dict Paris, qui le vent pareillement en La Rue Iaques a Lenseigne des Trois Coronnes".
Note
Signatures: A8 B-N6 O8.
Note
Previously: Bk.2.4 and GUT.2.3.4.
Note
Title within ornamental borders; initials. Two forms of Tory's mark, "le pot cassé", on title page and last leaf, respectively.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Tory, French engraver and official printer to François I, introduced the accent, apostrophe and cedilla to printing. Champfleury, which derives its title from an old French term for 'Paradise' is subtitled 'The art and science of the proportion of the Attic or ancient Roman letters, according to the human body and face. The beautifully illustrated and extremely influential work is the most famous example of the Renaissance pursuit of an ideal proportion between the human form and the letters used in printing. In the second of three parts, Tory uses a square grid to construct letterforms based on this ideal.
Citation/references note
Adams T837
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Label pasted inside front board: "This book was bought out of a bequest made to the College by Mr. Austin Young Hoy of Westport, Connecticut in memory of his son Dion Austin Hoy, who was in Mr. C. Mayes' house from 1935-1939.
Binding
16th? century brown panelled calf; five raised bands.
Subject
Alphabet Early works to 1800.
Subject
French language Pronunciation.
Subject
French language Provincialisms.
Added entry--name
Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480 - ca. 1533 printer.
Added entry--name
Gourmont, Gilles de printer.
Added entry--name
Hoy, Austin Young associated name.
Added entry--name
Hoy, Dion Austin, ? - d. 1944 associated name.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Identifier
B25979