[JACQUES de GUISE]

The first volume [- The second volume, - The third volume] of the illustrations of Gaulle Belgium, antiquitez du pays de Haynnau et de la gra[n]d cité de Belges: à présent dicte Bavay, dont procedent les chaussees de Brunehault Paris François Regnault 1531-1532 3 parts in 1 vol. in-folio, [8]- 142- [1], [4]- 82, [6]- 108 ff, text on two columns, in Gothic characters. Large architectural style title frame repeated at the head of each part, in red and black for the first two. Illustrated, in the 1st and 3rd volumes, with 3 full-page woodcuts: the author presenting his book to Philip the Good (repeated woodcut), the king of France presiding over a meeting of his parliament (in the foreground, a scribe writing and at the top a knights' fight as well as a gunsmith forging a piece). At the beginning of the 3rd vol. a wood of a scribe in his scriptorium. Numerous ornate initials with sifted backgrounds. Nice printer's marks of François Regnault (elephant mark) and Galliot du Pré (a galiot, with the motto " Vogue la guallee ". Rest. in the inner margins, some wetness at the beginning and at the end, torn corners of the last 2 ff (small lack of text). Paperback, without binding, temporary folder First edition of this chronicle of Hainaut but also of France, Germany and other European countries, due to the Franciscan Jacques de Guyse (died in 1399), compiler of the present work so named in the publication. This one is based essentially on the translation of its Latin manuscript attributed to Jacques de Lessabe, also known as J. de Leussauch. The announced fourth volume never saw the light of day. Ex libris ms. on the title page. Ref. Brunet II, 1836; Mortimer French 268; Machiels G-600; unknown to Adams; Bib. montoise p. 168-174 "Jacques De Guyse is reproached for lacking in criticism, a defect common to historians of the same time; but he is credited with the knowledge of a great number of interesting facts which, without his chronicle, would probably not have reached us"