Les Antiquitez, chroniques, et singularitez de Paris, ville capitale du Royaume de France, avec les fondations & bastimens des lieux: les sepulchres & epitaphes des Princes, Princesses & autres personnes illustres: Corrigées & augmentées, pour la seconde edition, Par G. Corrozet Parisien. Avec privilege du Roy.
Paris: En la grand’ Salle du Palais, en la boutique dudict Gilles Corrozet, 1561. Second enlarged edition. In later 19th century half leather, spine gilt, with title vignette. Tinted edges. Woodcut printer’s device on the last page. Woodcut initial and headpiece on A2v. ff. [8] 199 [1]. A few contemporary underlines and marginal notes in ink. Spine with a wormhole, restored at tail. Overall in very good condition.
The most complete lifetime edition of Corrozet’s early Paris-guide.
Gilles Corrozet (1510–1568) was a Parisian publisher, printer, and bookseller, a man of letters and historian, the author and publisher of the first guidebooks of Paris.
An early version of this legendary and rudimentary history of Paris, La fleur des antiquitez de la noble et triumphante ville et cite de Paris was published in 1532, and due to its great success, a completely revised, a greatly augmented edition was published in 1550 under a different title Les Antiquitez, chroniques, et singularitez de Paris. The present, second edition is the most complete lifetime edition of Corrozet's guide, in which the last recorded event dates from 1560.
Price: €2,500.00