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GODEAU (Antoine). Les Tableaux de la pénitence. Paris, Augus…
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GODEAU (Antoine). Les Tableaux de la pénitence. Paris, Augus…
See original version (French)
Lot no. 108
GODEAU (Antoine).
Les Tableaux de la pénitence. Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1656. In-4, havana basane, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, red title-piece, interior roulette, gilt edges (Binding of the end of the 19th century).
Second edition, after the original of 1654, of this work inspired by the paintings of Philostratus on mythology and those of Father Richeome on the Eucharist.
It is illustrated with a frontispiece, 2 bands and 22 plates, all remarkably engraved with burin by Couvay, Grignon, Boulanger, Tournier, Lochon, etc., after François Chauveau.
Antoine Godeau (1605-1672) was a member of the Académie française, a worldly prelate and a close friend of the Marquise de Rambouillet. He was bishop of Grasse and Vence.
From the Jean-Claude Carrière library (I, 2013, no. 49).
A copy in an imitation eighteenth-century binding.
The figures, some of which have been slightly damaged by the bookbinder's knife, are protected by serpents. Small brown stain on the edge of the first 20 leaves. Scuffing on the first cover.
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