Les triu[m]phes de fra[n]ce

[Divry, Jean], 1472?-1539. [from old catalog], Mamertinus, Charles Curre. Triumphes de france, Andrelini, Publio Fausto, 1462-1518. A la louenge de tres noble legat George damboise de paix mediateur et de rouen archevesque et prelat Quon tient en france second gubernateur, Auton, Jean d', approximately 1466-1527. L'exil de gennes, Eustace, Guillaume, printer, Jersey, Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of, 1845-1915, former owner. MB · 1508 · [Paris : Guillaume Eustace] · 10 pictures

A French illustrated printed book of 1508, published in Paris by Guillaume Eustace, celebrating the triumphs of France and the statesman Georges d'Amboise for a courtly and learned readership. Its pictures are woodcut scenes with black line outlines, crowded architectural interiors, and kneeling figures before seated rulers, offering a designer examples of early sixteenth-century northern European woodcut composition and framing within decorative borders.

Amboise, Georges d', 1460-1510

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