Hans Holbein, Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam, 1552, Charlotte Guillard.

[Hans Holbein] Bible. Biblia sacra iuxta Vulgatam versionem, ad vetustissimorum codicum fidem emendata, Jean Benoît, ed. Paris: Charlotte Guillard, 1552. Quarto.
 
Secunda editio of Jean Benoît’s critical Vulgate Bible, printed and published by Charlotte Guillard, the leading woman printer of the sixteenth century and a central figure in the scholarly book trade of Renaissance Paris.
 
The volume is extensively illustrated throughout. The Old Testament contains woodcuts after designs by Hans Holbein the Younger, first published in his Icones Historiarum Veteris Testamenti (1538), while the New Testament is illustrated with 124 woodcuts attributed to Pierre Regnault, together with numerous decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces. In total, the book contains c.218 woodcut illustrations, making it one of the most richly illustrated Vulgate Bibles of the period.
 
Bound in early vellum with marbled endpapers. Ex-libris General Theological Seminary Library, New York. Tearing to front endpapers, fading. Pages somewhat yellowed, with minor foxing, generally clean, as to be expected with age.