Author: LE ROUX DE LINCEY, M.
Title: The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Description: London: Gibbings & Company, Ltd, 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show light shelf wear, some soiling. Pages from the appendix are uncut on the front edge. ; A tight solid book, gilt on top page edges, laid paper, untrimmed fore and bottom page edges. Hinges intact, dark teal cloth covered boards with black stamped design on front boards and gilt stamped titles front and spine. This is a reprint of the 1894 translations by the Society of English Bibliophilists including reproductions of copperplate engravings from the Berne edition from the 18th century. ; Volume 2; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 225 pages; Volume 2 only. "Marguerite de Navarre (1492 - 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was the princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry. She was married to Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance." "The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days just as The Decameron does, but at Marguerite’s death it was only completed as far as the second story of the eighth day.". Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Short Fiction France LITERATURE LITERATURE
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Title: The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Description: London: Gibbings & Company, Ltd, 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show light shelf wear, some soiling. Pages from the appendix are uncut on the front edge. ; A tight solid book, gilt on top page edges, laid paper, untrimmed fore and bottom page edges. Hinges intact, dark teal cloth covered boards with black stamped design on front boards and gilt stamped titles front and spine. This is a reprint of the 1894 translations by the Society of English Bibliophilists including reproductions of copperplate engravings from the Berne edition from the 18th century. ; Volume 2; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 225 pages; Volume 2 only. "Marguerite de Navarre (1492 - 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was the princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry. She was married to Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance." "The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days just as The Decameron does, but at Marguerite’s death it was only completed as far as the second story of the eighth day.". Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Short Fiction France LITERATURE LITERATURE
Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 19105
- Book number: 19105
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