Antoine Vérard

by Macfarlane, John

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Published 1900 by Printed for the Bibliographical society at the Chiswick press in London .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Verard, Antoine, d. ca. 1513

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Edition Notes

Series	Illustrated monographs [issued by the Bibliographical society] no. 7, Illustrated monographs -- no. 7
Classifications
LC Classifications	Z232 V4 M23
The Physical Object
Pagination	143p.
Number of Pages	143
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL13994141M

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This thesis considers the adaptation of the Danse macabre (Dance of Death), a popular late medieval visual and literary theme prevalent in mural paintings, into a series of illustrated books published in France towards the end of the fifteenth century. While the first known edition, printed in Paris in by Guy Marchant, was based on the famous and now destroyed mural from Author: Maja Dujakovic. Antoine Verard begins using illustrations modeled on Phillipe Pigouchet’s work for the woodblock illustrations in his printed Books of Hours. Circa Miniature unfinished manuscript on display is produced. Circa – Master of the Ango Hours paints the Book of Hours for the use of Rouen.

Paris: Antoine Verard, 30 October PRINTED ON VELLUM. 4to ( x mm). [a] 8 b 10 a-i 8 k 4 A-D 8. (of ) leaves (lacking i). Lettre bâtarde, 22 lines, 19 large metalcuts, including the Grail supported by Angels ([a]1r) Anatomical Man ([a]2r) and Verard device at end, 29 small portrait metalcuts, ALL ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND. Paratextual Performances in the Early Parisian Book Trade: Antoine Vérard’s Edition of Boccaccio’s Nobles et cleres dames () (pp. ).   This volume is the first known book to have been produced by the French publisher Antoine Vérard, and it helped establish Paris as a leading publishing center. “The French eventually made these.

Free 2-day shipping on qualified orders over $ Buy Antoine Verard at nd: John Macfarlane. The Book of Hours was a 'best-seller' in medieval and early modern Europe, the era's most commonly produced and owned book. This interdisciplinary study explores its increasing popularity and prestige, offering a full account of the Book of Hours as a book - how it was acquired, how it was read to guide prayer and teach literacy and what it meant to its owners as Cited by: 9.   Since the end of the fifteenth century, The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry was available primarily through Antoine Vérard's imprint of or William Caxton's incomplete translation, The Book of the Order of Chivalry. Vérard suggested that the work was his own translation of the Roman writer Vegetius, making no mention of.