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[BOOK XVI].
THE DOCTRINE FROM THE FATHER TO THE SON… [at the end: ] “Here ends… Newly printed in Paris, [no publisher, c. 1528].
Fees include commission and taxes.
THE DOCTRINE FROM THE FATHER TO THE SON… [at the end: ] “Here ends… Newly printed in Paris, [no publisher, c. 1528].
Small 8vo (13 x 9 cm), [4] leaves. 19th-century lemon-coloured morocco, ribbed spine, red title label, panels decorated with small ironwork and edged with a double gilt line, covers framed by a triple gilt line, gilt line on the head and foot, interior lace, gilt edges [Trautz-Bauzonnet] (spine and edges of the covers slightly browned, slight foxing, marginal stain on the last leaf).
Count of Lignerolles (handwritten note in pencil; sale, Part 2, 5 March 1894, lot 1123); later an ex-libris comprising two Germanic coats of arms surmounted by a crown, gilded on blue leather.
Bechtel, D-372. Renouard, ICP, III, 1193 (for the copy held by the BnF).
An extremely rare edition of this poem in which a father teaches his son the essential rules for ‘living as one ought’.
Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page, framed by a double border, depicting a copyist monk at his desk. The first letter (“L”) of the title is woodcut. The text is set over 7 pages of 27 lines, in Gothic type.
Several editions of this poem appeared from the end of the 15th century onwards. These small works have been very rarely preserved and few have survived intact to the present day. Bechtel (Catalogue des gothiques français) describes a few of them, the last of which he dates to around 1528 and which may be the copy we are offering here, with an identical woodcut, in lemon morocco, which appeared in the Lignerolles sale in 1970. However, the final word differs by a single letter (“imprime” instead of “imprimee”), which we are tempted to regard as a misprint.
The copy has been repaired and is very well bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
The BnF suggests Alain Lotrian as a possible address for this estimated date, based on the materials used (title bands and typeface), but his copy does not bear the same engraved wood on the title page.