| Record ID | cp012718 |
| Voet reference number | 36A |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3251223 |
| Uniform title | LES SECRETS: French editions |
| Title page transcription | LES ‖ SECRETS DV SEI- ‖ GNEVR ALEXIS PIE- ‖ MONTOIS, ET D' AVTRES ‖ AVTEVRS BIEN EXPE- ‖ RIMENTE'S ET AP- ‖ PROVVE'S, ‖ Reduits maintenant par lieux communs, & diuisés en six ‖ Liures pour la commodité de ceux qui en voudrōt vser. ‖ ⊕ 13 ‖ A ANVERS, ‖ De l'Imprimerie de Christophle Plantin. ‖ - ‖ M.D.LXIIII. ‖ AVEC PRIVILEGE DV ROY. |
| Collation | 8⁰ [111]: A (= aⁱ, a, a…) - Z⁸, a-m⁸; pages 1-559 [= for 560] (Errors: twice 307, meaning that from 308 numeration too low by one unit; [12] - 15 - 14 - 15 - 14 - 17) |
| Fingerprint | 156408 - # 1b1 a2 $Di : # 1b2 Z5 u'e - # 2b1 a e$ : # 2b2 m5 pres$ |
| Number of sheets | 35 |
| Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Privilege (Brussels, [Council of Brabant], 13 November, and Privy Council, 2 March, signed by de la Torre; Paris, 8 January 1563, s. Brisset: privilege granted to Martin le Jeune, Paris bookseller); [beneath the page]: Acheué d'imprimer le 15. de Iuin. 1564 3: L'imprimeur au lecteur, salut (Antwerp, 13 June 1564) [4-11]: Table (italic type; on two columns) [12]: Epistre proemiale de l'auteur pour la premiere edition (italic type) 15 (= for 13)-14 (= for 16): Epistre de la seconde edition (italic type) 17-559 (= for 560): Text 559 (= 560): IMPRIME' A ANVERS PAR CHRI- ‖ STOPHLE PLANTIN. ‖ M.D.LXIIII |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus - A 885 |
| Digital copies | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: M.med. 30 |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 38 (1564, no. 13) Not in FergusonCockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 4937 |
| Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12920746USTC 30790 |
| Note 1 | In his foreword to the reader, dated Antwerp, 13 June 1564, Plantin declares that this was his 4th [French] edition of the Secrets: 'et chacune des trois premieres fois avec adionction et amendement. Mais outre cela ie te la redonne maintenant en un ordre beaucoup meilleur, et bien plus facile, pour l'usage de quiconques s'en voudra servir, qu'il ne fut oncques'. On his initiative the three parts were rearranged in a more systematic manner so as to bring together the receipts on related subjects. To quote again Plantin: 'Car ayant disposé le tout comme par lieux communs, nous avons reduit tous les chapitres traitant d'une mesme matiere, qui estoyent confuséement entremellés, non seulement en divers livres: mais aussi en divers lieux d'un chacun, en un mesme livre, et fait suivre l'un l'autre au meilleur ordre dequoy nous ayons sceu nous aviser'. The re-arrangement was made, according to the cost-accounting note quoted below, by Estienne de Walloncourt, who received for this work 4 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers |
| Note 2 | The cost-accounting note in Arch. 4, folios 64 verso-65 recto, gives following details about 'Secrets de Piemontois 8⁰ françois': the wages for composition and printing - in all 67 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers - were paid from 5 March to 18 June 1564; other expenses: 'pour 4 copies rompues à les mectre en autre ordre, 16 stuivers' and 'Pour la faceon de la table a m[aistr]e Estienne [de Walloncourt] payé 4 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers', bringing the overall costs for the 'impression' to 72 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers Two thousand copies were printed. As each copy contained 35 sheets, this meant that, including the imperfections, 145 reams of paper were used. Of these, 20 reams were 'papier fin à l'aigle et daufin de Pericart', at 1 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers per ream, worth 23 florins Carolus guilders The other 135 reams were 'petit commun de Rouen', at 12 stuivers per ream; but as of this consignment some reams had been damaged, this loss, valued at 1 florins Carolus guilders 7 stuivers, had to be added to the expenses, bringing the overall costs for the paper to 105 florins Carolus guilders 7 stuivers The edition, consequently, costed in total 178 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers |
| Note 3 | A number of copies must have received a title-page with the imprint of the Parisian bookseller, Martin le Jeune (see following no.). |
| Note 4 | Listed in M 296, folio 18 recto ([Secrets d'Alexis]. In 8⁰ Anno -, f[euilles] 35, [price:] stuivers 5). |
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