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Baliverneries, ov Contes novveaux d'Eutrapel [pseud.] autrement dit Leon Ladulfi. Paris, E. Groulleau, libraire, 1548

Du Fail, Noël, 1520?-1591, Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858, editor, Nodier, Charles, 1780-1844, former owner, Ruble, Alphonse de, 1831-1898, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1815 · [London, R. Triphook, 1815] · 8 pictures

A 1548 Paris reprint of Noël Du Fail's French comic tales, issued in London in 1815 by R. Triphook and edited by Samuel Weller Singer for collectors of old French books. Its pages show small black woodcut vignettes of Eutrapel's adventures, set beside dense black-letter type with decorated initial capitals, offering a designer compact figure groups, rustic scenes and ornamental letters to borrow from.

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