Lot 12: BRIOT, ISAAC.

[Twelve engravings of the months]. [Paris:] Thomas de Leu, [seventeenth-century]

Condition Note:

Oblong 4to (sheets 165 x 245mm.), 12 engraved plates by Briot, mounted in an album, recent calf gilt in period style

OTHER PROPERTIES

charming scenes of the months of the year, each showing various activities such as harvesting, feasting, building and so on, all set before attractive landscapes including, for the summer months, formal gardens. At the top of each engraving is the astrological sign associated with that particular month.

The publisher of the plates, Thomas de Leu (c.1555-c.1612) was a prolific French engraver and illustrator. Originally based in Antwerp, at around 1580 he moved to Paris to work for the painter and engraver Jean Rabel.