COLET, Claude - L'Histoire Palladienne, traitant des gestes & genereux faitz d'armes et d'amours de plusieurs grandz princes et seigneurs, specialement de Palladien filz du roy Milanor d'Angleterre, & de la belle Selerine soeur du Roy de Portugal (...). Paris, Estienne Groulleau, 1555, folio, 18th c. gold-tooled calf (somewhat worn), gilt ruled borders with large central arms and crowned D & WS cornerpcs , gilt spine on 5 raised bands (rebacked with the orig. backstrip preserved). Large margin copy (occ. very minor foxing). Very good copy.
First edition , Groulleau's own issue, of Claude Colet's posthumously published free adaptation of the 1st part of the Spanish romance Florando de Inglaterra (Lisbon, 1545), which claimed an unidentified and probably non-existent English original. Etienne Jodelle contributed a preface and a poem "Aux cendres de Colet." With 39 fine woodcut ills in text (incl. 15 repeats), each in a 4-piece border of foliated and grotesque ornament, usually with a coat-of-arms in the lower border, woodcut thistle initials, coming from the large stock of woodcuts made for the Amadis de Gaule, published by Janot and Groulleau from 1540 to 1556. There are 4 different issues of the present 1st ed., all with Groulleau in the colophon, but other imprints and publishers' devices for other booksellers. Early owner's name on the t.-p. (Herbert (?), see also leaf 84) and armorial bookpl. of William Cavendish (1808-1891), 7th Duke of Devonshire. The arms on the covers are of John Ker (1740-1804), 3rd Duke of Roxburghe. The cornerpcs were added c. 1812 for William Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), 6th Duke of Devonshire. Ref. STC French (BL), 335. Pettegree FB 40370. Mortimer (French) 407 (Dallier issue). Not in Fairfax Murray, Rothshild.
COLET, Claude - L'Histoire Palladienne, traitant des gestes & genereux faitz d'armes et d'amours de plusieurs grandz princes et seigneurs, specialement de Palladien filz du roy Milanor d'Angleterre, & de la belle Selerine soeur du Roy de Portugal (...). Paris, Estienne Groulleau, 1555, folio, 18th c. gold-tooled calf (somewhat worn), gilt ruled borders with large central arms and crowned D & WS cornerpcs , gilt spine on 5 raised bands (rebacked with the orig. backstrip preserved). Large margin copy (occ. very minor foxing). Very good copy.
First edition , Groulleau's own issue, of Claude Colet's posthumously published free adaptation of the 1st part of the Spanish romance Florando de Inglaterra (Lisbon, 1545), which claimed an unidentified and probably non-existent English original. Etienne Jodelle contributed a preface and a poem "Aux cendres de Colet." With 39 fine woodcut ills in text (incl. 15 repeats), each in a 4-piece border of foliated and grotesque ornament, usually with a coat-of-arms in the lower border, woodcut thistle initials, coming from the large stock of woodcuts made for the Amadis de Gaule, published by Janot and Groulleau from 1540 to 1556. There are 4 different issues of the present 1st ed., all with Groulleau in the colophon, but other imprints and publishers' devices for other booksellers. Early owner's name on the t.-p. (Herbert (?), see also leaf 84) and armorial bookpl. of William Cavendish (1808-1891), 7th Duke of Devonshire. The arms on the covers are of John Ker (1740-1804), 3rd Duke of Roxburghe. The cornerpcs were added c. 1812 for William Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), 6th Duke of Devonshire. Ref. STC French (BL), 335. Pettegree FB 40370. Mortimer (French) 407 (Dallier issue). Not in Fairfax Murray, Rothshild.
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