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Rare first octavo-editions of Book 6 and Book 7 of Amadis de Gaule
SIXIESME - SEPTIESME LIVRE, LE-, d'Amadis de Gaule, mis en Francoys par le Seigneur des Essars Nicolas de Herberay.    Paris, Estienne Groulleau for Vincent Sertenas, 1548. 2 parts in 1 vol. Sm.8vo. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and gilt, with red title-label, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. With large woodcut device of Sertenas on 2 titles, and Book 6 with woodcut frontispiece, verso blank, 2 large woodcuts and 13 woodcuts in text, and Book 7 with 4 large woodcuts and 17 woodcuts in text. (8), 152; (4), 150 lvs. Rare first octavo-editions of Book 6 and Book 7, both in the Sertenas-issue. In Book 7 one leaf, M2 replaced by an old blank leaf, probably done when the book was re-bound in the 18th century. Both books with a colophon, dated 1548, in Book 7 only stating that Groulleau printed the book, and in Book 8 additionally stating that Groulleau printed the Book for himself, for Jean Longis, and Vincent Sertenas. In both Books numerous woodcut initials are present, but some are left blank too, with printed guide-letter. Good copy, with the armorial bookplate of Edward Davenport.- (Binding sl. rubbed; text of one leaf in Book 7 lacking; few sl. stains).
Vaganay, Les éditions in-octavo, pp. 8-9; Foulché-Delbosc 108 (Book 7); Brunet I, 215; Index Aureliensis 104249-104250 (Groulleau-issues); STC French pp. 12-13 (earliest 8vo ed. resp. 1555 and 1550); Harvard, French, 19 (Book 6-7 in Groulleau-issues of 1555); Book 6 not in Foulché-Delbosc.
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