Accession number:
PML 1816
Published:
À Lyon : Par Thibault Payen, 1549.
Description:
2 v. ([16], 914 [i.e. 815], [1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 13 cm (16mo)
Notes:
Poems, religious in v. 1, secular in v. 2. "Comedies": p. 148-351.
Edited by S. Sylvius.
Ill. are generally attributed to Bernard Salomon.
3rd ed. (?), preceded by two 1547 ed.; cf. Mortimer, R. French, 365.
Le Miroir de l'ame pecheresse has special t.p. with imprint: A Lyon : par Pierre de Tours, 1549.
Signatures: *⁸ a-y⁸ A-I⁸; 2A-2V⁸.
Includes poems by M. Scève.
Binding:
Bound in 1 volume: brown calf, decorated bands painted black, gold-tooled, central compartment on each cover contains a love-knot flanked by the initials EB (the B clumsily altered to R) and surmounted by a crown, by the King Edward and Queen Mary Binder. In black morocco case.
Variant Title:
Vol. 2 has title: Suyte des Marguerites de la Marguerite des Princesses
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Edward VI (probably author's presentation copy; cf. Pearson).
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