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BERTAUD, JEAN. Encomium trium Marium cum earundem cultus defensione adversus Lutheranos. Badius woodcut printing press device on title; 33 woodcut illustrations, including 17 full-page, with some repeats; text pages in the second part within varying woodcut historiated borders. 18; [60]; 1, 3-78 (of 82) leaves; lacking 2 unsigned leaves of verse between the second and third parts, and the dedication leaf and last 4 leaves of the third part. 3 parts in one volume, the first and third printed in roman type, the second in gothic with text and music in red and black. 4to, 236x177 mm, early 20th-century gilt-panelled red morocco by G. Berti of Florence, stamp-signed at foot of spine; margins trimmed slightly affecting illustration on k3v, scattered foxing and minor stains, some early marginalia; gilt edges; 1/4 morocco folding case. Bookplates of Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903) and W. A. Foyle. Paris: Josse Bade and Galliot Du Pré, (22 November-15 December 1529)
first edition, first issue, of the only substantially illustrated book from the Badius press, a lavishly produced defense of the medieval cult of the Three Marys born to St. Anne. A late contribution to the controversy over writings of scriptural criticism by the humanist Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, Bertaud's work includes the Office of the Three Marys and a dissertation on their relation to St. John the Baptist. The presentation of the liturgical portion is closely modelled on that of printed Books of Hours of the period, in part re-using woodcut material from earlier editions of Parisian Horae. Brun, Le Livre Illustré Français de la Renaissance, pages 28 ("un des livres les plus remarquables du début du XVIe siècle") and 121; Harvard/Mortimer-French 54; Renouard (Badius) II, 187-94.
