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

Accession number
Heineman 197
Creator
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
Published
Lyon : Iean de Tournes, 1547.
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
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.
1st ed. (?). Apparently the "edition A" described in the Harvard catalog, having 'Treillustre" on p. 3 and "Esluz & Souldars" on p. 381 (v. 1); "Response" on p. 54 (v. 2).
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
Formerly owned by Ch. Nodier (label), Guyot de Villeneuve, H. de Backer, Dannie N. Heineman (bookplates).
Binding
Bound in 1 v. Citron morocco, gilt, with black onlays, blue morocco doublures, with dentelles; by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
Department