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La doctrine du pere au filz. [Paris, c. 1500-1510]. 8vo, 132 x 84 mm. (5 3/16 x 3 1/2 in.), dark green morocco, covers with wide dentelle border surrounding gilt ARMS OF ADOLPHE AUDENET (Guigard II, p. 23), spine richly gilt, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by BAUZONNET; slight wear to extremities, fore-edge of title-leaf cut away, marginal repairs to all four leaves, affecting a letter on [2]v, lightly washed and pressed . Collation: 4 (1r title and woodcut of a man and a woman with a child (62 x 45 mm.), 1v - 4v text, 4v colophon: Cy finist la doctrine du pere au filz nouuellement imprimee a paris ). 4 leaves, unsigned. Title in gothic type (180 mm.), text in bâtarde (83 mm.). 27 lines (112 x 57 mm.). Two-line woodcut Lombard initial on 1v. AN ANONYMOUS POEM OF MORAL INSTRUCTION FOR CHILDREN, OF THE GREATEST RARITY. The text, 38 quatrains followed by a 27-line Balade , is of unknown origin, and is one of several traditional "Doctrines" ( Le Doctrinal des filles, Le doctrinal des femmes mariées, ... des nouvelles mariées,...des bons serviteurs , etc.) that appeared in numerous Parisian and Lyonese editions in the 1490s. THIS EDITION NOT IN MOREAU, ONE OF THREE COPIES KNOWN TO BRUNET. Four other editions are recorded: GW 8628 (Lyons c. 1485-90), GW 8629 (Paris: Michel Le Noir, c. 1498), a second undated Lyons edition (Hain 3619), attributed to P. Mareschal and B. Chaussard, by GW and to Jacques Maillet in BM/STC, now believed to be sixteenth-century; and another probably Parisian edition, s.l.n.d., cited by Moreau (BN copy only), as [Paris: Alain Lotrian, c. 1527]. The only reference to the present edition that we have traced is Brunet II, 784 and Supplement I, 412, citing three copies, including the present. Provenance : Antoine Audenet, armorial binding as above (sale, Paris, 1839, 1841) -- Nicolas Yemeniz, bookplate (sale, Paris, 14 May 1867, lot 1661) -- James Hartmann, leather bookplate -- Horace Landau, bookplate (inventory no. 3865).