Moreau (Brigitte), 1930-1994

Five volumes (24-25 cm), I (Imprints 1501-1510, 1972): 425 pp. II (Imprints 1511-1520, 1977): 701 pp. III (Imprints 1521-1530, 1985): 681 pp. IV (Imprints 1531-1535, 1992): 471 (5) pp. V (Imprints 1536-1540, 2005): 605 pp. Volumes I-II uniformly bound in collector’s green quarter-morocco, top edges gilt, volume III in publisher’s green cloth, volumes IV-V in publisher’s printed wrappers. - All volumes published to date of an inventory of Parisian sixteenth-century book production, based on the researches of Philippe Renouard (1862-1934), edited (vols. I-IV) by Brigitte Moreau (1930-1994), assisted (vol. III) by Annie Laskowski, and edited latterly (vol. V) by Geneviève Guilleminot-Chrétien. The detailed entries include a listing of all known copies (abbreviations are given for over 130 libraries in France and over 400 in other countries). Each volume has two indexes: one of authors, editors, translators, etc.; the other of printers and publishers, including co-publishers from towns elsewhere. ¶ Excellent set.