Margaret of France: Duchess of Savoy 1523-74.

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First edition. Hardcover. Original dark grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front panel decorated in a blue and gilt heraldic device. An ownership signature and bookseller's label on the front paste-down, considerable foxing throughout (though the paper quality is good), o/w very good in an added clear archival jacket for this copy. A handsomely bound edition of this biography of the daughter of King Francis I of France, a patron of literature, who corresponded with, and furthered the careers of, Ronsard, Du Bellay and other members of the Pleiade, the group of critics and poets who flourished in France in the second half of the Sixteenth Century. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece and sixteen other illustrations. N° de ref. del artículo 31533

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