THE HEPTAMERON of the tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre.
Translated into English from the authentic text of M. Le Roux de Lincy. With an essay upon the Heptameron by George Saintsbury. Also the original seventy-three full-page engravings designed by S. Freudenberg and one hundred and fifty head and tail pieces by Dunker. In five volumes, totalling approximately 1,200 pages, 74 plates with tissue guards, numerous pictorial head & tailpieces, the half-titles printed in red and title pages printed in red & black, appendices, index; white buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, the spines slightly discoloured, faint indentation near centre of upper board Volume I; t.e.g., others uncut and sometimes partly unopened; dust wrappers, with a couple of tiny edges splits, the backstrips slightly browned; ribbon markers; book label of David Levine, Sydney, above the earlier bookplate of Australian bibliophile Harry Muir on upper pastedowns; The Navarre Society, London, 1922.. Item #182252
Price: $450.00