Emblémes, ou, Devises chrétiennes : ouvrage mêlé de prose & de vers, et enrichi de figures en taille-douce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Chavance, Virginie, active 1688-1701?, bookseller.

Chavance, Mathieu, active 1686-1738?, bookseller.

Sibert, Marcellin, ǂd 1662-1721, printer.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Emblems--Early works to 1800.

Emblems.

Christian art and symbolism--Early works to 1800.

Christian art and symbolism.

Penn Provenance:

Thielly (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

407, [1] p. ; 17 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Emblémes

Devises chrétiennes

Fingerprint:

irIS s.re its; EnVa (7) 1701 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Lyon : Chez la veuve Claude Chavance & Mathieu Chavance fils ... MDCCI [1701] (De l'imprimerie de Marcellin Sibert ...)

Notes:

Added engraved title leaf which reads: Deuises chrestiennes. A Lion chez la veuve Chavance et Mr. Chavance fils.

Colophon on leaf R12r which reads: A Lyon, de l'Imprimerie de Marcellin Sibert, ruë Confort, à l'Epée Royale.

Signatures: A-R¹².

Title in red and black.

Engraved illustrations and head-piece.

Woodcut title ornament and tail-pieces; type ornament head-pieces.

Dedication "A Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne" signed: M. Chavance.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has early ms. note ("a annette [...] Bertrand") at foot of title leaf.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Librairie Philippe Sérignan.

RBC copy has dated 18th-century autograph ("Thielly Prêtre 1731") on title leaf; autograph ("Thielly [...] Prêtre") on leaf O12r.

RBC copy has printed paper slips with bookseller's description of this copy affixed to verso of front free endpaper.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Cited in:

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827, 269

OCLC:

60579711