The Heptameron of the Tales of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, From the Authentic Text, Based on the Mss. in the Possession of the Societe Des Bibliophiles Francais. Supplemented with the Valuable Explanatory Notes of the Best French Edition Giving Also a Supposititious Key of the Personages of the Tales, the Pedigrees of Margaret of Angouleme and of the House of Orleans, and much Additional Historical Data of Great Interest, Previously Unpublished, and Therefore Not Included in Any Other English Edition; and Containing a Memoir of the Author and of Her Mother Louise of Savoy, with an Essay on the Bibliography of the Heptameron.
. The Bibliophilist Society, 1902. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Most of spine label missing, spine head rubbed, spine toned, front hinge starting.
xliv, 555 pp. "In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the.....