Shelfmark
Fg.2.11 - Fg.2.12
Author
Title
Le premier[-quart] volume de Messire Jehan Froissart, lequel traicte des choses dignes de memoire aduenues, tant es pays de France, Angleterre, Flanders, Espaigne que Escoce, et autres lieux circonuoisins..
Edition
Nouuellement oultre les precedentes impressio[n]s imprime a Paris..
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Paris] : On les vend en la rue sainct Jaques a lenseigne de la fleur de lys en la bouticque de Jehan Petit., Mil.vc.xxx. [1530]
Physical description
4 v. in 2 ([6], ccxiii, [1]; [4] ccxiii, [1],; [4], cclxxii; [2], lxx leaves) ; ill. (wdcuts) ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Note
Petit issue; also issued with imprints and colophons of Du Pré, Poncet le Preux, and F. Regnault.
Note
Colophon (v.4): "... Nouuellement imprime a Paris par Anthoine Couteau imprimeur pour Jehan Petit libraire iure de luniuersite, ... Et fut acheue dimprimer le deuxiesme iour de septe[m]bre lan mil cinq cens trente.".
Note
Title within ornamental border containing initials, name and motto of J. Petit; Petit device on final leaf of vols 1-2, and final verso of vol 4.
Note
Text printed in two columns.
Note
Vol 1 title-page printed in red and black.
Note
Initials.
Provenance
Given by the Earl of Aylesford, with his etched bookplate.
Provenance
Etched bookplate of Eton College signed with monogram GT, 1955.
Binding
19th-century diced russia calf; border formed of thin gold-tooled roll; marbled endpapers; rebacked in 20th-century calf retaining earlier green and black morocco spine-labels.
Subject
Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.
Subject
Bookplates. rbprov
Subject
Great Britain History 14th century.
Subject
France History House of Valois, 1328-1589.
Subject
Europe History 476-1492.
Added entry--name
Couteau, Antoine printer.
Added entry--name
Petit, Jean, active 1492 - 1530 bookseller.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
frm
Identifier
B33245