Title: La Metamorphose d'Ovide Figuree Author: Ovid Place: Lyon Publisher: De Tournes Date: 1564 Description: [iv], [178] pp. 178 woodcut illustrations by Bernard Salomon each enclosed in an ornate border. (8vo) 6½x4¼, period full calf, rebacked with original spine leather laid on, raised bands, gilt tooled spine compartments. Second Edition, first published in 1557. Perhaps no name is more intimately associated with the renaissance of French book illustration than that of Bernard Salomon foremost designer for the publisher Jean de Tournes of Lyon. Working for de Tournes, Salomon's works intersect with the intellectual, religious and cultural concerns of mid-16th-century France. The illustrators of many later editions of Ovid, including Virgil Solis, based their work on that of Salomon. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light rubbing to extremities, corners worn; lower margin of title page and 5 additional leaves trimmed (not affecting text or images), some finger soiling in fore margin, an occasional spot of foxing; otherwise a near fine copy. Rare. Item number: 182686
Title: La Metamorphose d'Ovide Figuree Author: Ovid Place: Lyon Publisher: De Tournes Date: 1564 Description: [iv], [178] pp. 178 woodcut illustrations by Bernard Salomon each enclosed in an ornate border. (8vo) 6½x4¼, period full calf, rebacked with original spine leather laid on, raised bands, gilt tooled spine compartments. Second Edition, first published in 1557. Perhaps no name is more intimately associated with the renaissance of French book illustration than that of Bernard Salomon foremost designer for the publisher Jean de Tournes of Lyon. Working for de Tournes, Salomon's works intersect with the intellectual, religious and cultural concerns of mid-16th-century France. The illustrators of many later editions of Ovid, including Virgil Solis, based their work on that of Salomon. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light rubbing to extremities, corners worn; lower margin of title page and 5 additional leaves trimmed (not affecting text or images), some finger soiling in fore margin, an occasional spot of foxing; otherwise a near fine copy. Rare. Item number: 182686
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