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About this Item

Title

  • Lart de bien viure et de bien mourir, etcet[era].

Other Title

  • Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir

Names

  • Verard, Antoine, -approximately 1513, printer.
  • Bocard, André, active 1491-1531, printer.
  • Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958, former owner.
  • W.H. Smith & Son., binder.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Paris [Antoine Vérard] for André Bocard, 12 Feb. 1453 [i.e. 1493/94]

Headings

  • -  Death--Early works to 1800
  • -  France--Paris

Genre

  • Incunabula--France--Paris--1494

Notes

  • -  Title extracted from leaf [1a], which begins: Le liure intitule Lart de bien ...
  • -  Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ f-h⁸ i¹⁰ k-r⁸ s⁶ t-x⁸ y¹⁰ 2a-2c⁸.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 424
  • -  Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-1123
  • -  Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 681 = 680
  • -  Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VIII, p. 154 (IB.40211)
  • -  Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 2587 (variations)
  • -  Includes L'art de bien vivre, Leguillon de crainte diuine, and Le traicte de laduenement de Antechrist.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
  • -  LC copy imperfect: leaf [88] supplied in facsimile; several leaves mended. Initials supplied, illus. hand-colored.
  • -  LC copy has yleaf inscription: Cepresant liuvre apartien a Monsr. d. Montmagny, Henry Moper (?), maistre d'hotel de Madame de Loussay, demeurant rue Sainct Paul a Paris, fait le quinziesme juillet mil six cen quarant huit. Bookplate of C.W. Dyson Perrins.
  • -  LC copy has binding stamped: WHS.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • [200] leaves ([73] and the last leaf blank). woodcuts: illus., publisher's device. 27.7 cm. (fol.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Incun. 1494 .A75

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 48033846

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Verard, Antoine, -Approximately 1513, Printer, André Bocard, Charles William Dyson Perrins, Binder W.H. Smith & Son, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Lart De Bien Viure Et De Bien Mourir, Etcetera. [Paris Antoine Vérard for André Bocard, 12 Feb. i.e. 1493/94, 1494] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/48033846/.

APA citation style:

Verard, A., Bocard, A., Perrins, C. W. D., W.H. Smith & Son, B. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1494) Lart De Bien Viure Et De Bien Mourir, Etcetera. [Paris Antoine Vérard for André Bocard, 12 Feb. i.e. 1493/94] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/48033846/.

MLA citation style:

Verard, Antoine, -Approximately 1513, Printer, et al. Lart De Bien Viure Et De Bien Mourir, Etcetera. [Paris Antoine Vérard for André Bocard, 12 Feb. i.e. 1493/94, 1494] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/48033846/>.