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Les Qvatre Premiers Livre De La Franciade. Av Roy. Tres-Chrestien, Charles, Nevfieme De Ce Nom. Par Pierre De Ronsard, Gentilhomme Vandomois. [Printer's mark].

Accession number
Heineman 218AB
Creator
Ronsard, Pierre de, 1524-1585.
Published
A Paris, Chez Gabriel Buon, demeurant au Cloz bruneau, à l'ens̀eigne sainct Claude. 1572.
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
Commendatory verses by Germain Vaillant de Gueslis, Jean Dorat, Jean Passerat, Rémy Belleau, and others.
Cf. Tchemerzine, A. Bibliographie ... d'auteurs français ... Paris, 1927-33, v. 9, p. 447-448; Maggs bros., London. Catalogue ... of Ronsard, by Seymur de Ricci. London, 1927, p. 144-145, no. 66.
First edition.
Pages 5, 203-207, 209, 212, 216, 218 incorrectly numbered 3, 111-114, 227, 211, 214, 217, 217, respectively.
Head and tail pieces; initials.
Description
14 p. l., 229, [1] p. 2 illus. (ports) 23 cm
Provenance
From the collection of Dannie and Hettie Heineman,
Binding
Blind-stamped vellum.
Classification
Department