PARADIN, Claude (ca 1510-1573). Quadrins historiques de la Bible -- [Charles FONTAINE.] Figures du Nouveau Testament. Lyon: Jean de Tournes 1555-1556.
PARADIN, Claude (ca 1510-1573). Quadrins historiques de la Bible -- [Charles FONTAINE.] Figures du Nouveau Testament. Lyon: Jean de Tournes 1555-1556. 2 works in one, 8 o (174 x 105 mm). Arabesque title borders, printer's device on Q3r, arabesque ornament on Q3v, Q4 blank, 327 woodcuts by Bernard Salomon (ca 1506-1561), 231 in the first work and 96 smaller cuts in the second, 3 repeated, printed one to a page above verse text in italic type. Contemporary Lyonnese calf (some minor rubbing to spine and edges). Provenance : acquired from Librairie Rossignol, 1962. Second editions of both works (first editions with the full series of cuts), 199 of the 231 woodcuts of Bernard Salomon's Biblical series were first published in the first edition of Paradin's Quadrins in 1553. Completed in 1554, the full series was thenceforth used by De Tournes in numerous Latin, French, Italian and German editions of the Bible as well in emblem book form. While the cuts show the influence of earlier biblical woodcut series, "the cumulative effect of Salomon's carefully detailed scenes is that of an individual contribution to Bible illustration" (Mortimer). Brun, p. 131 ("pur chef-d'oeuvre de l'©ecole lyonnaise"); Cartier II, 393 and 396; Fairfax Murray French 40 (1555 ed.) and 615 (1559 ed.); Mortimer French 87 and 85. A TALL COPY.
PARADIN, Claude (ca 1510-1573). Quadrins historiques de la Bible -- [Charles FONTAINE.] Figures du Nouveau Testament. Lyon: Jean de Tournes 1555-1556.
PARADIN, Claude (ca 1510-1573). Quadrins historiques de la Bible -- [Charles FONTAINE.] Figures du Nouveau Testament. Lyon: Jean de Tournes 1555-1556. 2 works in one, 8 o (174 x 105 mm). Arabesque title borders, printer's device on Q3r, arabesque ornament on Q3v, Q4 blank, 327 woodcuts by Bernard Salomon (ca 1506-1561), 231 in the first work and 96 smaller cuts in the second, 3 repeated, printed one to a page above verse text in italic type. Contemporary Lyonnese calf (some minor rubbing to spine and edges). Provenance : acquired from Librairie Rossignol, 1962. Second editions of both works (first editions with the full series of cuts), 199 of the 231 woodcuts of Bernard Salomon's Biblical series were first published in the first edition of Paradin's Quadrins in 1553. Completed in 1554, the full series was thenceforth used by De Tournes in numerous Latin, French, Italian and German editions of the Bible as well in emblem book form. While the cuts show the influence of earlier biblical woodcut series, "the cumulative effect of Salomon's carefully detailed scenes is that of an individual contribution to Bible illustration" (Mortimer). Brun, p. 131 ("pur chef-d'oeuvre de l'©ecole lyonnaise"); Cartier II, 393 and 396; Fairfax Murray French 40 (1555 ed.) and 615 (1559 ed.); Mortimer French 87 and 85. A TALL COPY.
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