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First octavo edition of Book 10

[AMADIS DE GAULE].
Le dixiesme livre d'Amadis de Gaule, auquel (contenant les haultz faitz d'armes & prouësses admirables de dom Florisel de Niquée, & des invincibles Anaxartes & la pucelle Alastraxerée sa soeur) est traité de la furieuse guerre qui fut entre les Princes Gaulois & Grecz pour le recouvrement de la belle Helene d'Apolonie. Et des aventures estranges qui survindrent durant ce temps. Traduit nouvellement d'Hespagnol en Françoys.

With woodcut device of Vincent Sertenas on title, and 40 woodcuts in text.

With woodcut device of Vincent Sertenas on title, and 40 woodcuts in text.

With woodcut device of Vincent Sertenas on title, and 40 woodcuts in text.

With woodcut device of Vincent Sertenas on title, and 40 woodcuts in text.

With woodcut device of Vincent Sertenas on title, and 40 woodcuts in text.



Paris, Estienne Groulleau, for Vincent Sertenas, 1557. Sm.8vo. Modern vellum. With woodcut device of Vincent Sertenas on title, and 40 woodcuts in text. (16), 223 lvs.

First octavo edition of Book 10, with Groulleau's colophon, dated 1557, at the end, here in the Sertenas issue, with his device on title. Book 10 was translated by Jacques Gohory, with his motto "Envie d'Envie en Vie" on title, and at the end of the translator's preface together with his initials: I.G.P. The book is richly illustrated with woodcuts and fine large white woodcut initials, including Janot's thistle initials and Tory's "lettres fleuries".
Good, uncut copy.
Vaganay, Les éditions in-octavo, pp. 40-42 (Groulleau-issue); Foulché-Delbosc 227 (idem); Brunet I, 215; Harvard, French, 19 (Book 10); STC French p. 13 (ed. of 1563); not in the Index Aureliensis.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  French  Literature  Popular Books  Romances of Chivalry 

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