TORTOREL, JACQUES. ACTIVE 1568-1592; and JEAN PERRISSIN. C.1536-1617.
Premier volume contenant quarante Tableaux ou Histoires diverses touchant les guerres, massacres et troubles advenus en France en ces derniere annees. [Lyon?: c.1570.]
Folio (400 x 285 mm). 26 (of 40) double-page plates (23 engraved and 3 woodcut). Rebacked early 19th-century mottled calf gilt, retaining original spine with 5 raised bands, morocco gilt lettering piece. Chipping and wear to covers, plates backed with later wove paper, some margin repairs, scattered browning, spotting and handling marks.

First and only volume published, with plates depicting barbaric events of the religious wars in France, published not long before the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris (1572). The sympathies of the authors lean clearly toward the Huguenots, as most of the events depicted portray brutality inflicted by Catholics upon Protestants. Originally there were 35 engraved and 5 woodcut double-page plates, but complete copies are rare. Le Blanc, 1-40. Brunet IV, 892f.
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