La plaisante & amoureuse histoire du cheuallier dore, & de la pucelle surnommee cueur dacier.

8vo: [91 (of 92)] ff. (lacking final blank).

19th-c. gilt cherry morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, covers with triple gilt ruled border, richly gilt spine on 5 raised bands, gilt sides, richly gilt inside dentelles, dark leather doublures, a.e.g. (over marbl. edges), marbl. flylvs, blue silk marker. Excellent well-preserved copy.

Extr. rare (3rd recorded copy?) 2nd ed. (1st Paris 1541) of a Renaissance imitation of a medieval French Arthurian novel. The “Chevalier doré est un roman fabriqué à partir des morceaux du Perceforest” (G. Polizzi). Large woodcut on title and 39 woodcuts in text. Ref. Pettegree FB 13035 (2: BL [inc.], Nantes). - Not in Adams, Baudrier, SvGültlingen (Harsy), STC French, BnF. Prov. Acad. Scient. Litt. et Art. Lugd. (libr. stamp). - From the collections of A. Bertin (1854), Nicolas Yemeniz (1867 - nr. 2543), Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1878), Techener (1889), Robert Hoe (1912 - leather bookpl.), J.B. Stetson (1935), Julius Wilmerding (1951 - bookpl.), S. Brunschwig (1955 - nr. 366, leather bookpl.) and [Georges Petit].