Povrtraits divers
Contributors: Tournes, Jean de, 1504-1564
Publisher: Par Ian De Tovrnes
Published: 1557
Place of publication: A Lion
Language: fre
Number of pages: 62
Other titles: Pourtraits divers
Notes: A collection of small woodcuts from de Tournes' stock, printed one to a leaf with the versos blank. Many are by Bernard Salomon. It may have been intended as an "album amicorum" to be inscribed by friends of the owner, like de Tournes' Thesaurus amicorum of about the same time. The cuts depict scenes from an ed. of Terence, hunting scenes, allegories of planets, physiognomic male and female heads, scenes from Jean Bouchet's Angoisses et remedes d'amours (1550), and others. For the preceding, see Mortimer.

Previously issued in 1556.

Grotesque t.p. border.

Eight gatherings of 8 leaves, unsigned.

Mortimer, R.  French 16th-cent., 446

Binding: limp vellum. On front pastedown is calligraphic label of Theodore Besterman, signed with the initials P.S. Holes from earlier stab-sewing.