Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses, tresillustre royne de Nauarre.

Accession number: 
PML 1816
Author: 
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
Published: 
À Lyon : Par Thibault Payen, 1549.
Description: 
2 v. ([16], 914 [i.e. 815], [1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 13 cm (16mo)
Notes: 

Poems, religious in v. 1, secular in v. 2. "Comedies": p. 148-351.
Edited by S. Sylvius.
Ill. are generally attributed to Bernard Salomon.
3rd ed. (?), preceded by two 1547 ed.; cf. Mortimer, R. French, 365.
Le Miroir de l'ame pecheresse has special t.p. with imprint: A Lyon : par Pierre de Tours, 1549.
Signatures: *⁸ a-y⁸ A-I⁸; 2A-2V⁸.
Includes poems by M. Scève.

Binding: 
Bound in 1 volume: brown calf, decorated bands painted black, gold-tooled, central compartment on each cover contains a love-knot flanked by the initials EB (the B clumsily altered to R) and surmounted by a crown, by the King Edward and Queen Mary Binder. In black morocco case.
Variant Title: 

Vol. 2 has title: Suyte des Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses

Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Edward VI (probably author's presentation copy; cf. Pearson).
Classification: 
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