ENTRÉE, Henri II into Rouen, October I, 1550 -- Cest la dedvction du sumptueux ordre plaisantz spectacles et magnifiqves theatres . Rouen: J. Le Prest for R. Le Hoy and R. and Jean Du Gort, December 9, 1551. 4° (220 x 159mm). Roman type. Title in decorative form with leaf ornament at the beginning and Du Gort's device above imprint. 29 woodcuts, of which five are blocks covering two leaves. Criblé and foliated initials in several sizes. Two pages of music at end with ornamental initials and the text in small roman letter between staves. (Title and 'Aux Lecteurs' leaf renewed at upper corner, A4 with filled-in hole in blank area, G1 affected by small, repaired paper fault, E1-2, H3-5, K1-L2 extended at lower blank margin and possibly supplied from another copy, N1 and N4 extended at foremargin and also supplied, lightly washed, residual thumb-soiling, a few upper margins close shaved, without blank A1.) Blue morocco by Lobstein-Laurenchet, sides with triple gilt fillets, gilt-panelled spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINELY-ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF THE ENTRY OF HENRI II AND CATHERINE DE MEDICIS INTO ROUEN. The royal entry at Rouen was the occasion for a spectacular recreation of a Brazilian forest, complete with fifty Indians of the Tupinambas tribe exhibiting their war dances and combats on the banks of the Seine before Catherine de Medicis; it is recorded in a double-page woodcut. The title-page in the present copy differs from that in the Harvard copy by having the publisher's device. As in the Harvard copy, H5 is a cancel, the verso (originally blank according to Brunet) containing an equestrian portrait of the dauphin François freely adapted from Hardouyn Chauveau's 1549 account of Henri II's entry into Paris. Although the 29 woodcuts have been attributed to Jean Cousin or Jean Goujon they are, in Mortimer's opinion, 'probably the work of a lesser artist influenced by Goujon's designs for the account of the Paris entry'. The blocks were re-used in 1557 for Jean Du Gort's verse description of the same event. J. Chartrou describes the entry in detail in Les entrées solennelles et triomphales à la renaissance 1484-1551 (Paris, 1928, pp. 130-140). Brunet II, 998-999; Mortimer, Harvard, French 203; Sabin 73458; Vinet I, 473.
ENTRÉE, Henri II into Rouen, October I, 1550 -- Cest la dedvction du sumptueux ordre plaisantz spectacles et magnifiqves theatres . Rouen: J. Le Prest for R. Le Hoy and R. and Jean Du Gort, December 9, 1551. 4° (220 x 159mm). Roman type. Title in decorative form with leaf ornament at the beginning and Du Gort's device above imprint. 29 woodcuts, of which five are blocks covering two leaves. Criblé and foliated initials in several sizes. Two pages of music at end with ornamental initials and the text in small roman letter between staves. (Title and 'Aux Lecteurs' leaf renewed at upper corner, A4 with filled-in hole in blank area, G1 affected by small, repaired paper fault, E1-2, H3-5, K1-L2 extended at lower blank margin and possibly supplied from another copy, N1 and N4 extended at foremargin and also supplied, lightly washed, residual thumb-soiling, a few upper margins close shaved, without blank A1.) Blue morocco by Lobstein-Laurenchet, sides with triple gilt fillets, gilt-panelled spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINELY-ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF THE ENTRY OF HENRI II AND CATHERINE DE MEDICIS INTO ROUEN. The royal entry at Rouen was the occasion for a spectacular recreation of a Brazilian forest, complete with fifty Indians of the Tupinambas tribe exhibiting their war dances and combats on the banks of the Seine before Catherine de Medicis; it is recorded in a double-page woodcut. The title-page in the present copy differs from that in the Harvard copy by having the publisher's device. As in the Harvard copy, H5 is a cancel, the verso (originally blank according to Brunet) containing an equestrian portrait of the dauphin François freely adapted from Hardouyn Chauveau's 1549 account of Henri II's entry into Paris. Although the 29 woodcuts have been attributed to Jean Cousin or Jean Goujon they are, in Mortimer's opinion, 'probably the work of a lesser artist influenced by Goujon's designs for the account of the Paris entry'. The blocks were re-used in 1557 for Jean Du Gort's verse description of the same event. J. Chartrou describes the entry in detail in Les entrées solennelles et triomphales à la renaissance 1484-1551 (Paris, 1928, pp. 130-140). Brunet II, 998-999; Mortimer, Harvard, French 203; Sabin 73458; Vinet I, 473.
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