philippe pigouchet simon vostre (2 résultats)

LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1496 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 188 Language: Latin.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. Small gothic 4to [208 x 145 mm] printed on vellum skin of (72) ll., a-i8, 33 lines per page, mark of the printer on the title, historiated borders on each page, 21 large full-page engravings not including the anatomical man, numerous small initials illuminated with gold on red or blue background. Full light brown morocco entirely decorated with blind-stamped motifs with a dark brown morocco mosaïc, spine ribbed and decorated, double inner gilt fillets framing, gilt edges. Elegant binding signed by Marius Michel. incunabular partly first edition printed on vellum skin in Paris by Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre considered by a large number of critics as the most beautiful French illustrated book of all times. Philippe Pigouchet not only printed almost all the Hours published by Simon Vostre from 1488 to 1502, as well as several other Hours for Pierre Regnault, bookseller in Caen, and for Guillaume Eustache, bookseller in Paris, of which we can find the article below; but before having put his press to the service of those three booksellers, he had already published under his own name and on his own account several Books of Hours, including the Almanac, indicating the dates of Easter, began in the year 1488. The name of Simon Vostre, who began to appear during the year 1488 at the latest, cannot be found after 1520. « There is something sure, the Hours by Pigouchet, exécutéd for Simon Vostre have always made the admiration of bibliophiles and connaisseurs. They bear the artistic mark of the old French School. The drawer, said J. Renouvier, stepped in the schema of the gothic iconography; He places on the first pages the representations that the sculptor used to put on the steps of the church, on the sides of the portal, and he adds, as he pleases, more familiar and more cheerful motifs, small subjects of manners whose kindness touches us all the more because we see the tradition faithfully observed by country people and by children. We didn t make anything similar abroad : this is ultimate French art. As we flip through the leaves, we would think being transported unders the naves of our ancient gothic cathedrals. Claudin (Histoire de l'imprimerie en France) dedicates 20 pages and numerous reproductions to this edition that we can consider as one of the most beautiful from the incunabular printing in the western world and that constitutes an important date in the evolution of ornamentation : « des personnages fantastiques accompagnent dans leur chevauchée des chimères de toutes sortes, le tout brochant sur une flore incomparable : telles sont ces bordures d'une exquise conception » Claudin 44. Superb copy printed on vellum skin of this incunabular Book of Hours so important in the history of printing in France, entirely rubricated with gold on an alternated red and blue background. The purity of its printing is such that it made its way into the collection of the greatest amateur Georges Wendling with ex-libris. In 2004, Pierre Berès described and catalogued ford 130 000 the Hours of 1498 by Simon Vostre bound in the 19th century. (Réf : Pierre Berès, September 15-28, 2004, n°2).