HOMERE

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HOMERE
Homeri Ilias, id est, De rebus ad Troiam gestis. Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1554. In-8 of (2) ff., 554 pp. and (1) f. : red morocco, boards and spine entirely covered with a fanfare decoration organized around an empty central oval on the boards and decorated with a flowery pot on the spine, the compartments thus drawn decorated with numerous small straight irons and scrolls, dotted fillet inside, gilt edges (binding of the beginning of the XVIIth century) Nice edition in Greek of the Iliad, printed by the Norman humanist Adrien Turnebe (1512-1565), professor at the Collège de France and the King's printer for Greek in 1551. This is the first Parisian edition of Homer's text. (John Lewis, Adrien Turnebe, a Humanist observed, Droz, 1998, n° 17.) A remarkable copy, regulated, preserved in a fine binding "à la fanfare" executed at the beginning of the 17th century. Hobson, in Les Reliures à la fanfare (1935, p. IX), reproduces a binding which he dates to 1630 and which has many points in common with this one: irons, fineness of the fillets and general organization of the decoration.
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