Bien, aduise mal, aduise

Le Caron, Pierre, active 1488-approximately 1500, printer, Verard, Antoine, -approximately 1513, printer, Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner, Lothian, William Kerr, Marquess of, approximately 1690-1767, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1499 · Paris, Pierre Le Caron for Antoine Vérard [before 13 Oct. 1499] · 37 pictures

A 1499 Paris moral allegory in French verse, printed by Pierre Le Caron for the publisher Antoine Vérard, a dialogue between personified virtues and vices set in black-letter type with decorated initials. The pages show dense columns of gothic text broken by small red and blue headings and speaker labels, so a designer could draw on the rhythm of the typography and the handmade capitals.

France · Incunabula · Moralities, french · Paris

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