| | Rouen , L. Maurry, 1656, in-24 (11,6 x 6 cm.), 8ff. - 507 pp. - 479 pp. - 1 ff. (last leave of the Privilege lacks), contemporary full brown morocco (wears on corners), spine raised on 4 bands decorated with gilt fillets, 4 compartments gilt tooled with fillets and fleurons, one compartment gilt lettered, round sides double gilt fillets, gilt rolls on leading edges. Quite scarce edition but only the collation given by the bibliographer Ch. Brunet corresponds to ours. "La jolie édition des même quatre livres réunis, sous la date de 1656, et également imprimée à Rouen L. Maurry, pour Robert Ballard, à Paris, 2 tom. en 1 vol., in 24, de VIII ff. prélim., 507 pp. et le privilège, est ornée de nombreuses gravures de Campion" (Brunet, III, col 422. Our copy is enriched by an engraved title frontispiece, culs-de-lampe and 115 nice engravings by Campion and H. David (monogram). Some minor foxings. Cfr. also De Backer p.191; Tchermerzine, vol. IV p.137 (figure) and p. 138 (4 figures only).
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