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1553 Lyon Edition of Rouille's Promptuarium
Rouille, Guillaume. PRIMA PARS PROMPTUARII ICONUM INSIGNIORUM À SECULO HOMINUM, SUBJECTUS EORUM VITIS, PER COMPENDIUM EX PROBATISSIMIS AUTORIBUS DESUMPTIS / PROMPTUARII ICONUM PARS SECONDA INCIPIT A' CHRISTO NATO, PERPETUAM DUCENS SERIEM AD USQUE CHRISTIANISSIM? FRANCORUM REGEM HENRICUM HOC NOMINE SECUNDUM, HODIE FELICITER REGNANTEM. Lugduni: Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, 1553. Two parts in one volume. 4to [23.5 by 17.5 cm], early 19th-century black quarter calf, decorated in blind and ruled and lettered in gilt, with marbled sides. (8), 172, (4); 247, (9) pages; 828 finely engraved woodcut medallion portraits, with text below; engraved vignettes on titles; woodcut decorations. Intermittent light spotting and staining; a few signatures sprung. Very good or so. A 16th-century numismatic classic, being the first edition in Latin of Rouille's famous Promptuarium, which was printed in Italian and French editions the same year. John Cunnally, in Images of the Illustrious, devotes a long section to Guillaume Rouille, observing that though "not a printer himself, Rouille was a grand éditeur who contracted with writers, artists, printers, and retailers to produce blockbuster editions, selecting titles that would appeal to an international audience." Family connections enabled Rouille to distribute books throughout Europe, accounting for the multilingual editions of his Promptuarium, and other works which he sold to retailers. Rouille consistently employed the best engravers, and Cunnally notes that, aesthetically, the Promptuarium "is very successful with its medallions arranged in pairs at the top third of the page and the text elegantly set below." Brückmann 112 & 118. Dekesel R63. Hirsch 105. Labbé (1675) 11. Lipsius 322. Struve 24.
Rouille, Guillaume. PRIMA PARS PROMPTUARII ICONUM INSIGNIORUM À SECULO HOMINUM, SUBJECTUS EORUM VITIS, PER COMPENDIUM EX PROBATISSIMIS AUTORIBUS DESUMPTIS / PROMPTUARII ICONUM PARS SECONDA INCIPIT A' CHRISTO NATO, PERPETUAM DUCENS SERIEM AD USQUE CHRISTIANISSIM? FRANCORUM REGEM HENRICUM HOC NOMINE SECUNDUM, HODIE FELICITER REGNANTEM. Lugduni: Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, 1553. Two parts in one volume. 4to [23.5 by 17.5 cm], early 19th-century black quarter calf, decorated in blind and ruled and lettered in gilt, with marbled sides. (8), 172, (4); 247, (9) pages; 828 finely engraved woodcut medallion portraits, with text below; engraved vignettes on titles; woodcut decorations. Intermittent light spotting and staining; a few signatures sprung. Very good or so. A 16th-century numismatic classic, being the first edition in Latin of Rouille's famous Promptuarium, which was printed in Italian and French editions the same year. John Cunnally, in Images of the Illustrious, devotes a long section to Guillaume Rouille, observing that though "not a printer himself, Rouille was a grand éditeur who contracted with writers, artists, printers, and retailers to produce blockbuster editions, selecting titles that would appeal to an international audience." Family connections enabled Rouille to distribute books throughout Europe, accounting for the multilingual editions of his Promptuarium, and other works which he sold to retailers. Rouille consistently employed the best engravers, and Cunnally notes that, aesthetically, the Promptuarium "is very successful with its medallions arranged in pairs at the top third of the page and the text elegantly set below." Brückmann 112 & 118. Dekesel R63. Hirsch 105. Labbé (1675) 11. Lipsius 322. Struve 24.