Icones historiarum Veteris Testamenti. Lyon, Jean Frellon, 1547. Small in-4, stiff vellum (Binding of the time). Famous suite by Hans Holbein the Younger, of which this is one of the masterpieces, woodcut by Hans Lutzelberger.
It consists of 94 half-page vignettes illustrating the Old Testament, renowned for their beauty and finesse of execution, each accompanied by a Latin epigram and a French quatrain by Gilles Corrozet.
On the penultimate leaf are printed four medallions with the effigies of the evangelists which were not found in the previous editions.
Copy of the first edition under this date.
Minor wetnesses, 6 ff. from another copy (ff. A2, A3, B1-B4), marginal repair to f. A2, break to f. M3, repaired lacks of date and two medallions to ff. N3-N4.
Baudrier, V, 209 - Adams, B-1963 - Mortimer, n°281 - Murray, n°244.
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