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Dutch quatrains to a famous woodcut series
BORLUYT, Guillaume.Ghesneden figueren uuyten ouden testamente naer tlevene met huerlier bedietsele.      Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1557. Small 8vo. Nineteenth-century half green buckram, spine ribbed and gilt. Title within ornamental woodcut borders, woodcut printer's device with banderolle "Son art en dieu" at the end, and 231 fine woodcuts by Bernard Salomon, with title above and 4-line verse underneath. 119 lvs. First and only edition of Guillaume Borluyt's Dutch quatrains, accompanying the famous woodcut series to the Old Testament by the foremost artist of the period, Bernard Salomon. Guillaume Borluyt was born in 1535 in Gent. He had studied law and went to France to try his good luck. During his peregrinations through France, he was short of money when he arrived in Lyons in 1557, where he met Jean de Tournes. De Tournes possessed the two series of woodcuts on the Old and on the New Testament by Bernard Solomon, and asked Borluyt to make Flemish verses to the series. The Old Testament series, consisting of 199 woodcuts, was first published in 1553 with Claude Paradin's quatrains under the title Quadrins historiques de la Bible. The quatrains resumed the bible text in verses easy to memorize and the woodcut series was useful as source of inspiration for painters. Salomon completed the set in 1555, comprising 231 blocks. The series to the New Testament was also published in 1553 with French texts, and in 1557 with Dutch texts. The two series are considered to be Salomon's most significant and influential work. The delicate woodcuts with their carefully detailed scenes present an individual contribution to Bible illustration by a highly gifted and sensitive artist. Jeudwine praises his style as "full of ingenuity and charm". Some of the woodcuts are particularly interesting from the point of view of technique, like the night scenes in Exodus, the storm over Noah's ark, and the black ravens hovering over a cornfield. Bernard Salomon's woodcut-series of the Bible were very popular in the 1550's and 1560's, illustrating various bible-editions, and published as print-series with verses in various languages, including English. Good copy.- (Last blank lacking).
Cartier II, nr. 361; Bibl. Belg. B 377; Machiels B 886; Adams B 2500; not in Mortimer, Harvard French (cf. nr. 81); not in STC; not in NUC; for the printer's device, see Cartier I, p. 44); cf. also N. Rondot, Graveurs sur bois à Lyon au seizième siècle, p.11; R. Brun, Le livre français illustré de la Renaissance, 132 (17).
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