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L'Heptameron, ou, Histoires des amans fortunez des nouuelles de tresillustre & tresexcelle[n]te princesse, Marguerite de Valois, roine de Nauarre / remis en son vray ordre, confus au parauant en sa premiere impression ... par Claude Gruget ...

Accession number
PML 2484
Creator
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
Published
A Lyon : Pour Loys Cloquemin, 1581.
Notes
Contains prefatory sonnets by J. Passerat & J. Vezou.
Publisher's device on t.p.
Signatures: A-2D⁸ 2E⁶.
Description
812 p. ; 12 cm (16mo)
Provenance
Formerly owned by Earl of Hopetoun (armorial bookplate with mottoes: tria juncta in uno & at spes non fracta), apparently John Hope, earl of Hopetoun, 1765-1823; J. Toovey (bookplate).
Binding
Red morocco gold-tooled, by Boyet (?, Toovey cat.), Duseuil (?, note on fly leaf).
Classification
Department