Budé, De asse, et partibus eius, libri V, Lyon, 1550, contemporary French calf gilt
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BUDÉ, GUILLAUME. Gulielmi Budaei Parisiensis, consiliarii regii, supplicumque libellorum in Regia magistri, De asse, et partibus eius, libri V. Ab ipso autore novissime & recogniti & locupletati. Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1550
The presence of a binding stamp which matches Gryphe’s printer’s device has led to the suggestion that this could be a publisher’s binding, though the stamp here only contains part of Gryphe's device (Georges Colin, “Les marques de libraires et d’éditeurs dorées sur des reliures”, Bookbindings and other bibliophily: essays in honour of Anthony Hobson, Verona, 1994). Other bindings are recorded with versions of Gryphe’s printer’s devices, mostly on Lyon imprints from the 1550s and 1560s, but not always on books printed by Gryphe. A very similar binding with the same stamp on a Gryphe imprint of 1553 was in the Broxbourne Library (now Bodleian Library, Broxb. 12.8).
8vo (173 x 104 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: a-z8 A-Z8 Aa-Kk8: 448 leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials.
binding: Contemporary French calf gilt (181 x 118 mm), two frames of blind fillets with gilt corner fleurons, central gilt stamp of a gryphon, lettered BVDE DE ASSE at head of upper cover, spine with small flower stamp in each compartment, traces of a paper label at head, edges plausibly of faded yellow and blue (blue and yellow are the Fugger family colours), manuscript fragments in binding. (Binding slightly rubbed and scraped, spine rubbed and slightly defective.)
provenance: Fugger family library, sale, Sotheby’s, 5 December 1991, part of lot 132 — Diana Parikian, catalogue 56 (London, 1993), item 15 — George Bayntun, catalogue 8 (Bath, 1998), item 12. acquisition: Purchased in 1999 from George Bayntun, Bath. references: USTC 150460; von Gültlingen V: Gryphe 1112
