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L'Innocence de la tresillustre tres-chaste, et debonnaire princesse, Madame Marie royne d'Escosse : ou sont amplement refutées les calomnies faulces, & impositions iniques, publiées par un liure secrettement diuulgué en France, l'an 1572 touchant tant la mort du Seigneur d'Arley son espoux, que autres crimes, dont elle est faulcement accusée : plus, vn autre discours auquel sont descouue[r]tes plusieurs trahisons tant manifestes, que iusques icy, cachées, perpetré[es] par les mesmes calomniateurs.

Accession number
PML 3311
Published
[S.l. : s.n.], Imprimé l'an 1572.
Notes
Headpiece; initials.
Collation: a, b[superscript]8c[superscript]4A-M[superscript]8N[superscript]4P-Z[superscript]8Aa[superscript]6; according to Scott 85, many copies vary in collation and irregular pagination.
For variations between different printings of this work, questions of place of imprint and authorship, cf.: Scott, John. A bibliography of works relating to Mary Queen of Scots, 1544-1700 (Publications of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, v. II, 1896).
Although many bibliographies attribute authorship to François de Belleforest, he appears to have played only an editorial role, if any at all. Cf. Scott.
Leaf V₄ signed V₃.
Description
[20], 110, [1] 78 leaves ; 17 cm
Provenance
Mary Stuart collection.
Binding
Maroon morocco.
Classification
Department