PLANTIN PRESS -- SENECA , Lucius Annaeus (c. 55 B.C.- 37 A.D.). Flores … traduzidas de Latin en romance Castellano por Juan Martin Cordero. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1555.
PLANTIN PRESS -- SENECA , Lucius Annaeus (c. 55 B.C.- 37 A.D.). Flores … traduzidas de Latin en romance Castellano por Juan Martin Cordero. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1555. 8° (154 x 89mm). Woodcut device of a vine-dresser on title, woodcut initials. (Lightly washed, a few residual soil marks and stains.) Green morocco gilt by L. Claessens, Plantin’s later compass device reprised on covers, gilt panelled spine, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance : S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED BY PLANTIN . It is listed as the second of three works in the first privilege granted to Plantin on 5 April 1555. The evidence is strong that the first book he printed was Bruto’s La institutione di una fanciulla nata nobilmente , but this work was actually published by Bellerus. The Spanish humanist Juan Martin Cordero, who translated these extracts from Seneca, recorded in his memoirs that the Flores was Plantin’s first book. As Voet points out ( The Golden Compasses , I pp. 17-18 note), this must mean his first published book. He was not the printer, but this was his ‘first publication and the first book to carry his printer’s mark’. Brunet V, 282; Palau 307855 : ‘linda edición'; Sorgeloos 402.
PLANTIN PRESS -- SENECA , Lucius Annaeus (c. 55 B.C.- 37 A.D.). Flores … traduzidas de Latin en romance Castellano por Juan Martin Cordero. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1555.
PLANTIN PRESS -- SENECA , Lucius Annaeus (c. 55 B.C.- 37 A.D.). Flores … traduzidas de Latin en romance Castellano por Juan Martin Cordero. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1555. 8° (154 x 89mm). Woodcut device of a vine-dresser on title, woodcut initials. (Lightly washed, a few residual soil marks and stains.) Green morocco gilt by L. Claessens, Plantin’s later compass device reprised on covers, gilt panelled spine, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance : S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED BY PLANTIN . It is listed as the second of three works in the first privilege granted to Plantin on 5 April 1555. The evidence is strong that the first book he printed was Bruto’s La institutione di una fanciulla nata nobilmente , but this work was actually published by Bellerus. The Spanish humanist Juan Martin Cordero, who translated these extracts from Seneca, recorded in his memoirs that the Flores was Plantin’s first book. As Voet points out ( The Golden Compasses , I pp. 17-18 note), this must mean his first published book. He was not the printer, but this was his ‘first publication and the first book to carry his printer’s mark’. Brunet V, 282; Palau 307855 : ‘linda edición'; Sorgeloos 402.
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