Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Plutarchus, Opuscula varia, [Geneva], 1572, contemporary brown calf gilt

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PLUTARCHUS. Plutarchi Chæronensis opuscula varia: quæ magna ex parte sunt philosophica: Vulgo autem moralia opuscula nimis angusta appellatione vocantur. Ex diversorum interpretationibus, quarum quædam sunt Henri Stephani, non antea editæ. Indicis superioribus multo locupletiori adiunctæ sunt annotationes ejusdem Henr. Stephani. [Geneva]: Henri II Estienne, 1572


Plausibly a publisher's binding for Jean Bogard (died c.1634), a printer active in Louvain and Douai, as the gilt device on the binding is the same as the printer's device found in works produced by Bogard's printing house. Ten bindings displaying four different versions of his device are listed by Georges Colin, "Les Marques de libraires et d'éditeurs dorées sur des reliures" in Bookbindings & other bibliophily: Essays in honour of Anthony Hobson (Verona 1994), pp.104-106 (this volume is not among them). The present copy also contains an 11-line inscription on the front free endpaper and several marginal annotations and corrections, all in a beautiful humanist hand.

Part one (only, of 3), 8vo (176 x 107 mm). Roman type, 39 lines plus headline. collation: *4 a-z8 A-Z8: 372 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, numerous marginal annotations.


binding: Late sixteenth-century Flemish brown calf (188 x 119 mm), single gilt fillet around sides, small gilt quatrefoil at corners, gilt publisher's stamp in centre, in an oval open book above and heart with wings below, flat spine, false bands in gilt, horizontal title across 4 compartments, remains of old manuscript inventory label at foot of spine, plain edges, section of medieval manuscript leaf visible as binder's waste. (Joints starting, slightly rubbed at extremities).


provenance: Jean Bogard (died c.1634), his device on covers — Dukes of Arenberg, Plettenberg'schen Bibliothek (Schloss Nordkirchen), nineteenth-century armorial exlibris conjoining the Plettenberg and Esterhazy-Galantha arms. acquisition: Purchased in 1993 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: GLN 2439; USTC 450621

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