Paradoxes ce sont propos contre la commune opinion : debatuz, en forme de declamations forẽses : pour exerciter les ieunes esprits, en causes difficiles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.

Contributor:

Landi, Ortensio, approximately 1512-approximately 1553.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Paradoxes.

Penn Provenance:

A.L. (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Thompson (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

158 pages ; 14 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Reueuz & corrigez pour la seconde fois.

Fingerprint:

u.ir des& urz. geha (3) 1553 (R)

Place of Publication:

À Paris : Par Charles Estienne, imprimeur du Roy, MDLIII [1553]

Notes:

A French adaptation by Charles Estienne of the Paradossi of Ortensio Landi. Cf Compact Brit. Mus. cat, v. 8, p. 1027.

Signatures: A-K⁸ (final leaf blank).

Printer's device on t.p.

Woodcut initial on p. 7.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown calf; boards gold-tooled with double fillet around a blind-tooled single fillet; five raised bands on spine; four spine panels gold-tooled with fleurons within double fillets; title gold-stamped on a black leather label in the second panel; place, author, and year of publication gold-stamped on a black leather label in the fourth panel; cover edges rolled with single fillet; decorative gold tooling on turn-ins; marbled endpapers; green signet; all edges speckled brown.

Culture Class Collection copy left board detached.

Culture Class Collection copy has two stamps at outer head margin of the front free endpaper verso: Thompson is stamped in black ink, and the initials "A.L. no. [?]" are stamped in red ink.

Related Work:

Landi, Ortensio, approximately 1512-approximately 1553. Paradossi.

OCLC:

8269842