Multi-publisher edition of The Ideal Prince
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Author: Guevara, Antonio de
Title: L'Horloge des princes, avec le très renommé livre de Marc Aurèle, recueilly par don Antoine de Gueuare... Traduict en partiee... par feu N. de Herberay... et depuis reveu et corrigé nouvellement...
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Chez Jean Borel
Date Published: [1578]
Description:
Author: Guevara, Antonio de
Title: L'Horloge des princes, avec le très renommé livre de Marc Aurèle, recueilly par don Antoine de Gueuare... Traduict en partiee... par feu N. de Herberay... et depuis reveu et corrigé nouvellement...
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Chez Jean Borel
Date Published: [1578]
Description:
[xxxii], 395, [1] pp. With woodcut title-page device and floriated initials. 16.5x10.5 cm (6½x4¼"), rebacked contemporary calf boards ruled in blind, raised in bands, spine lettered in gilt.
The Middle-French translation of Guevara's famous Spanish Renaissance work on the ideal prince. This edition appears to have been a joint publication of at least five publishers (G.Beys, Buon, Jean Poupy, Jean Borel, and Michael Sonnius, who all released editions with the same collation and minimal changes to the title page. Ink purchase note dated "30 a Junii 1592" plus marks of later owners and bookplate of H. Van Etten on the front pastedown.
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Wear and rubbing to calf, flaking and chips lost along edges and front lower corner; front hinge starting, occasional faint foxing and creasing; very good internally.
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Multi-publisher edition of The Ideal Prince
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