Lot n° 81
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DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques - Lot 81
DU FOUILLOUX, Jacques
La Vénerie de Iacques du Fouilloux Escuyer, Seigneur dudit lieu, pays de Gastine en Poitou. Dedicated to Roy Treschrestien Charles, neufiesme de ce nom. Plusieurs receptes et remedes pour guérir les Chiens de diverses maladies. Plus l'Adolescence de l'Autheur
Poitiers, Par les de Marnefz, & Bouchetz frères, 1561
ORIGINAL EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
A SUPERB COPY, ONE OF THE VERY FEW BOUND IN THE PERIOD: HERE IN LIMP VELLUM.
THE ONLY ONE KNOWN TODAY WITH A PROVENANCE OF THE PERIOD, THAT OF CARDINAL LORENZO STROZZI (1513-1571), NEPHEW OF QUEEN CATHERINE DE MÉDICIS.
IT SUBSEQUENTLY ENTERED THE COLLECTIONS OF THE BORGHESE PRINCES, WHO SOLD IT IN 1892. IT APPEARED IN THE BULLETIN MORGAND, THEN IN THE COLLECTIONS OF PAUL MURET AND HENRI BURTON.
ORIGINAL EDITION with date 1561, "extremely rare" (J. Thiébaud)
Small folio (276 x 192mm). Engraved woodcut design on title page. Printed entirely in italics. On the last leaf, the Complainte du Cerf... by Guillaume Bouchet is printed on both sides, as it should be, in two columns. The tones of the hunting fanfares have been printed, as they should have been, on different strips of paper and laminated onto the original staves, which can be seen, by transparency, devoid of notes.
COLLATION: *4 A-S6: 82 leaves, with A1r-S5v paginated 1-214, i.e. 4 f. n. ch., 214 pp and 1 f. n. ch.
CONTENTS: *1r: title, *1v: privilege of December 23, 1560, *2r: dedication to Charles IX, *3r: table, A1r: text, Q1r: Receptes pour guarir les chiens..., R5r: L'Adolescence de Iacques du Fouilloux, S6r: Complainte du Cerf
ILLUSTRATION: a frontispiece and 56 woodcuts printed in the text. They depict numerous scenes of stag, wild boar, hare, badger and fox hunting. They illustrate how to select, train and care for hounds. One of the most famous engravings is that of the hunters' lunch sitting on the grass (p. 81).
STRICTLY CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Ivory vellum, supple boards, title inscribed in brown and black ink on the upper board and spine, the upper board contemporary with the publication, same watermark on both endpapers: gloved hand surmounted by a crown [cf. Briquet 10.935 and around, between 1559 and 1575]. Case folder
PROVENANCE: Cardinal Lorenzo Strozzi (1513-1571): "A Monseigneur le Révérendissime Cardinal Strozzi", inscription in ink on verso of the endpaper -- Prince Paolo Borghese (1845-1920), 9th Prince of Sulmona, Catalogue of the library of S. E. D. Paolo Borghese, Prince of Sulmona, Rome, Vincezo Menozzi, May 16-June 7, 1892, p. 135, lot 844, which specifies: "rel. molle vélin (rel. anc.) [...] 3 figures ironed in ink", cf. : https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033646277&seq=156&q1=fouilloux). The copy is also cited in the preface among the highlights of the sale, p. XI: "a very clean and fresh copy". Paolo Borghese, the famous Italian gastronome, squandered his fortune: he sold the Villa Borghese to the Italian state in 1901, to which the art collections were transferred in 1903. The Borghese archives, meanwhile, were acquired by the Vatican Library in the time of Leo XIII -- a copy cited by J. Thiébaud, as probably acquired by Damascène Morgand in this sale; it appears in the Morgand Bulletin of 1900, p. 113, no. 38064: "a copy of Cardinal Strozzi, with wide margins, in its old binding. Some figures have been ironed in ink" -- Paul Muret (ex-libris; not included in the sale of October 30, 1936, nor in that of January 25, 1937, whose catalogs we were able to consult at the Giraud-Badin bookshop, whom we thank) -- Henri Burton, Geneva amateur (ex-libris) -- sale, Paris, Drouot, Arcole, March 11, 1991
Small restoration in the outer margin of the first cover of the binding, the first endpaper and the left end of the title page, binding missing. Small brown stains in the inner margins of Q without affecting the text, small natural paper losses in the upper corner of R5 without affecting the text, R1.2 slightly browned. A small number of engravings have had their lines underlined in black ink by a hand probably infantile and certainly pre-dating the 18th century: some very faintly (2), others modestly (3) and 4 more strongly. Among the latter, the ink has created small gaps in two engravings (p. 5 and p. 98).
For almost a century, the Strozzi family was attached to the French court and the Médi
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