Picta // poesis
By: Ab authore denuò recognita. // Vt pictura poesis erit. // [vignette: dragon with crown, 3.5 x 5.5 cm., with motto: Virtuti sic cedit invidia]
Contributors: Eskrich, Pierre, approximately 1530-approximately 1590, illustrator; Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561, illustrator; Pesnot, Ludovic, publisher; Pesnot, Carol, publisher; Bonhomme, Mathias, printer
Publisher: apud Ludouicum & Carolum Pesnot. // [bar]
Published: 1564
Place of publication: Lugduni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: French Emblem books; French Wood engravings
Notes: Colophon, H⁸, recto: Lugduni, : Mathias Bonhome // Excudebat.

Brunet, IV, 634. Fairfax Murray 611. See: Brun: Livre illustre en France au XVIe siècle, p. 110-111, 142. Baudrier, III, 170. See: Baudrier, X, 225-226. Praz: Emblem books, 10.

Verses in Latin and Greek written to accompany pictures most of which were already in Bonhomme's stock.-- cf. pref.

Illustrations: numerous small metal cuts and woodcuts by various artists, attributed by some to Bernard Salomon or Pierre Eskrich. Except for 17 ordered by Aneau (cf. pref.) most of the cuts of the 1552 and subsequent editions had appeared in other works, e.g. Marot's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lyon, Roville, 1550.

Title vignette: device of Francis I.

Originally published in 1552 by Bonhomme, again in 1556, and 1563, of which this is a re-edition. cf. Landwehr.

Cicognara, 1841

Brunet, IV, column 634

Murray, C.F. French books, 611

Praz, M. Studies in 17th-century imagery, p. 256

Landwehr, J. French, etc. devices and emblems, 116