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

Accession number
PML 34932
Creator
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
Published
À Lyon : Par Iean de Tournes, 1547.
Notes
Poems, religious in v. 1, secular in v. 2. "Comedies": v. 1, p. 148-380.
Edited by S. Sylvius.
Ill. are generally attributed to Bernard Salomon.
Mixed 1-2 ed. (?). Vol. 1 is apparently the "edition B" described in the Harvard catalog, having "tresillustre" on p. 3 and "Eslus & Souldars" on p. 381. Vol. 2 seems to by "edition A", having "Response" on p. 54.
Signatures: a-z⁸ A-L⁸; a-x⁸ y⁴.
Medallion device of Cupid on the t.p. of each v. De Tournes's device, v. I, L8r.
Includes two poems by M. Scève.
Description
2 v. (541, [3]; 342, [2] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Bookplate of Cortlandt F. Bishop.
Binding
Bound in 1 volume: blue morocco, gold-tooled, with doublures, by Trautz-Bauzonnet; in marbled case.
Classification
Department