PATRICIUS, FRANCISCUS, Bishop of Gaeta . (1413-1494). De l'institution et administration de la chose publicque...nouvellement translaté et mis en francoys. Paris: (Pierre Vidoue for) Galliot Du Pré (30 April 1520). Folio, 309 x 196 mm. (12 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.), eighteenth-century light brown calf, spine and board edges gilt, edges stained red, restorations to joints and head and tail of spine, first two leaves a bit soiled and creased, repaired tears to fols. p2 and q1, 1 to 2 small filled wormholes within text block from z4 to the end and through gutter nearly throughout, affected text skilfully supplied in manuscript facsimile, a few other minor repairs, occasional slight marginal dampstaining or soiling . Collation: ã6 a-z6 6 A-G6. 192 leaves. Bâtarde type, woodcut arms of François I on title, criblé initials in four sizes, nine three-quarter page woodcuts at the head of each book, including two repeats (each approx. 173-131 mm.), one in 4 compartments, printer's "galée" device on recto of final leaf. Numerous marginal impressions of printing furniture. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. In 1518 Galliot du Pré published an unillustrated edition, edited by J. Savigny, of Patricius's De institutione reipublicae , a pre-Machiavellian survey of every aspect of civil and social life, from the proper functioning of the magistrature to urban architecture, literature and the education of women. Du Pré advertised his 1518 Latin edition as the first, but references exist to a 1494 edition (Hain 12467, n.p.). A second Du Pré Latin edition (Adams P-445) was published five months after the present translation, which was reprinted in 1534 (the 1532 edition cited by Brunet is a ghost). The fine woodcuts, principally urban scenes of daily life, may be the work of the "F" artist who later worked for the printer Denys Janot (cf. Harvard/Mortimer French 425). Galliot Du Pré was one of the few publishers of the period to commission woodcuts for specific editions, and the present illustrations, which have "le singulier mérite de s'appliquer au texte et de représenter des scènes de moeurs" (Brun, p. [ ]), may have been cut for this edition, although they appear in later editions of different works (cf., for example, Petrarch Des remedes de lune & laultre fortune , Du Pré 1523 and 1534, or Crescentius, Le bon mesnaiger , Paris: [Estienne Cavalier] for Vincent Sertenas, 1540). RARE. Moreau lists 8 copies (including the dedication copy on vellum at the Bibliothèque nationale, lacking the title). There appear to be no copies in American institutional collections, and none have appeared at auction in at the past 50 years. Brun p. 268 (Latin 1520 edition); Brunet IV, 441; Moreau II, 2436; Van Praet II, p. 60, no. 79. Provenance : Early inscription on fol. O3v, effaced -- (from Lardanchet, 1935, 39/162).
PATRICIUS, FRANCISCUS, Bishop of Gaeta . (1413-1494). De l'institution et administration de la chose publicque...nouvellement translaté et mis en francoys. Paris: (Pierre Vidoue for) Galliot Du Pré (30 April 1520). Folio, 309 x 196 mm. (12 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.), eighteenth-century light brown calf, spine and board edges gilt, edges stained red, restorations to joints and head and tail of spine, first two leaves a bit soiled and creased, repaired tears to fols. p2 and q1, 1 to 2 small filled wormholes within text block from z4 to the end and through gutter nearly throughout, affected text skilfully supplied in manuscript facsimile, a few other minor repairs, occasional slight marginal dampstaining or soiling . Collation: ã6 a-z6 6 A-G6. 192 leaves. Bâtarde type, woodcut arms of François I on title, criblé initials in four sizes, nine three-quarter page woodcuts at the head of each book, including two repeats (each approx. 173-131 mm.), one in 4 compartments, printer's "galée" device on recto of final leaf. Numerous marginal impressions of printing furniture. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. In 1518 Galliot du Pré published an unillustrated edition, edited by J. Savigny, of Patricius's De institutione reipublicae , a pre-Machiavellian survey of every aspect of civil and social life, from the proper functioning of the magistrature to urban architecture, literature and the education of women. Du Pré advertised his 1518 Latin edition as the first, but references exist to a 1494 edition (Hain 12467, n.p.). A second Du Pré Latin edition (Adams P-445) was published five months after the present translation, which was reprinted in 1534 (the 1532 edition cited by Brunet is a ghost). The fine woodcuts, principally urban scenes of daily life, may be the work of the "F" artist who later worked for the printer Denys Janot (cf. Harvard/Mortimer French 425). Galliot Du Pré was one of the few publishers of the period to commission woodcuts for specific editions, and the present illustrations, which have "le singulier mérite de s'appliquer au texte et de représenter des scènes de moeurs" (Brun, p. [ ]), may have been cut for this edition, although they appear in later editions of different works (cf., for example, Petrarch Des remedes de lune & laultre fortune , Du Pré 1523 and 1534, or Crescentius, Le bon mesnaiger , Paris: [Estienne Cavalier] for Vincent Sertenas, 1540). RARE. Moreau lists 8 copies (including the dedication copy on vellum at the Bibliothèque nationale, lacking the title). There appear to be no copies in American institutional collections, and none have appeared at auction in at the past 50 years. Brun p. 268 (Latin 1520 edition); Brunet IV, 441; Moreau II, 2436; Van Praet II, p. 60, no. 79. Provenance : Early inscription on fol. O3v, effaced -- (from Lardanchet, 1935, 39/162).
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