Les amours de Clitophon et de Leucippe / tirées du grec d'Achilles Statius ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Achilles Tatius.

Contributor:

Remy, Abraham, 1600-1646.

Billaine, Pierre, active 1613-1638, bookseller.

Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Leucippe and Clitophon. French

Language:

French

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Verrue, Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de, 1670-1736 (armorial binding) (inscription) (RBC copy)

Fürstenberg, Hans (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Leslorant, J. B. (former owner) (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 676, that is, 682 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Amovrs de Clitophon et de Levcippe

Fingerprint:

a-Et urde e-uy voou (3) 1625 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Pierre Billaine ..., MDCXXV [1625]

Notes:

Dedicatory epistle signed: A.R. [i.e. Abraham Remy].

Signatures: ã⁴ A-2T⁸ 2V⁸(-2V8?).

Numerous errors in pagination.

Engraved title vignette (bookseller's device).

Woodcut initials and head-pieces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

RBC copy has 3 ms. numerals (shelf-marks?), two struck through, all in brown ink on verso of front free endpaper; early ms. notes in brown ink on blank leaf preceding title leaf and blank leaf following last printed leaf; a few early ms. notes in brown ink in fore-edge margin of title leaf; a few early ms. corrections to text in brown ink.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.

RBC copy has early ms. provenance note ("3# a paris. nota. cet exemplaire Vient De la biblio[the]que De madame La comtesse De Vertue.") in brown ink at head of verso of front free endpaper.

RBC copy has bookplate ("Ex Libris Jean Furstenberg") of Hans Fürstenberg on verso of front free endpaper.

RBC copy has dated 18th-century ownership inscription ("Ex Libris j. B. Leslorant adv. arr. D. 1782.") in brown ink on verso of leaf preceding title leaf.

RBC copy bound in eighteenth-century full mottled calf; boards triple-ruled in gold with a gold rosette at each corner; supralibros of Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de Verrue, beneath the word "MEUDON" (both stamped in gold) on boards; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("CLITOPHON ET LEUCIPPE"); gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges marbled; green silk marker.

RBC copy cropped at fore-edge margin with damage to ms. notes on title leaf; wormhole in tail outer corner of leaves 2D8-2H2; some leaves dampstained in tail outer corner.

Cited in:

Gay, J. Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes, au mariage, et des livres facétieux pantagruéliques, scatologiques, satyriques, etc. (4. éd.), I, 135

OCLC:

955633017