[Marguerite D'ANGOULÊME] MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
L'Heptaméron des nouvelles de Marguerite de Navarre[The Heptameron]
AUGUSTE EUDES|Paris 1880|14.5 x 23 cm (Fort in-8)|Copper engraving|4 volumes reliés
Paris, Auguste Eudes, 1880. Four stout octavo volumes.
A handsome bibliophile edition of the Heptaméron, reproducing the critical text established from the manuscripts by Le Roux de Lincy for the Société des Bibliophiles françois in 1853-1854, revised and augmented for the present edition by Anatole de Montaiglon.
The deluxe issue was limited to 395 copies on special papers. This copy, no. 301, is one of 40 on Whatman paper with the engravings in three states: one in black on Japan paper, one in bistre and one in sanguine on Whatman. This was among the most desirable issues of...
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