Author: Verdier, F
Title: [ HISTOIRE DES ACTIONS EXTRAORDRES [sic] DE SAMSON ]
Description: Paris, Benoist Audran et Charles Simonneau 1698 Engraved Dedication leaf designed & engraved by Verdier & others + 37 numbered plates [lacking plate 27] + unumbered final plate [total 39 of 40 plates] . obling 4to [24 x 33 cm], Cloth spined boards with brown speckled covers [edges worn and a bit bumped] There are 39 plates printed on water-marked paper but the greater part of the water mark is cut off at the upper margin. There is a fine bookplate to the front pastedown of a bearded man turning the pages of a book with a bee-hive instead of a hat and bees swarming around. The ex-libris has the owner's name Hubert Dupond under the illustration which also shows that he designed the bookplate. All pages are printed on one side only and have two or three lines of french & latin text below the picture. The illustrations show episodes in the life of Samson and these are taken from the book of Judges chapter thirteen. The plates are beautifully printed with the dedication plate the only one to be foxed -and that mainly to the margins..

Keywords: Life of Samson


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