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Les emblesmes, [translated by Jacques Grévin], 1567

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Voet reference number 1484
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Author Hadrianu JUNIUS (DE JONGHE)
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Note 1 Ruelens-de Backer, page 76 (1567, no. 28) notes 'Emblesmes de Adrian le Jeune, faicts François et sommairement expliqués. Anvers, Christophe Plantin, 1567. 1 vol. in-16. (Voy. Bibl. franç., 1772, t. I., 416). La Croix du Maine attribue à Jacques Grévin, cette traduction dont Du Vernier ne dit rien'.
Note 2 Quoted also by Praz, M. Seventeenth-Century Imagery, page 385; J. Landwehr, Dutch Emblem Books, 1962, no. 119; and J. Landwehr, Emblem Books in the Low Countries, 1970, no. 286, who specifies 'Printer's device and 57 woodcuts from the Latin edition', but adds 'Not seen'. We were not able to trace a copy.
Note 3 The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folio 93 verso, gives the following details about 'Emblemata Junii franc[ois]': the translation was indeed done by the French physician Jacques Grévin, who is noted on 30 June [1566] to have received 7 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers 'pour la traduction payée à Mre Jacques Grévin p[ar] P. Porret (= through the intermediary of Plantin's 'brother' in Paris, Pierre Porret)'. The wages for composing and printing are entered on 17 January 1567 and amount to 4 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers Each copy contained 2 sheets (meaning, when an in 16mo, 64 pages). Of the edition 1,000 copies were printed, for which 4 reams 5 'mains' of paper 'grand carré' were used, which, at 1 florins Carolus guilders 12 stuivers per ream, came to 6 florins Carolus guilders 16 stuivers, bringing the overall costs (without the fee paid to the translator) to 11 florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers
Note 4 Listed in M 296, folio 6 recto (Emblemes de Ad. Junius en fran[cois], 16º, f[euilles] 2, [price:] stuivers ½), and M 164, folio 11 verso.
Note 5 N.B.: A copy has been located (in UL Glasgow) and described by J. Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese books of devices and emblems, 1534-1827, 1976, no. 416. The note on this edition will be retaken in the last volume of The Plantin Press.
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