DU BELLAY (Joachim). Les Œuvres françoises. Rouen, Pour George l'Oyselet, 1592. In-8, havana morocco, cold fillet, interior roulette, gilt edges (Leighton). Tchemerzine, t. III, p. 77. Edition printed in italics, except for the Deffense which is in round type. It contains in addition a sonnet signed Jehan Chrestien, Provençal, that the abbot Goujet attributes to Dauphine des Jardins de Provence. Well complete with the last leaf which bears a typographical mark. From the Charles Butler library, Warren Wood Hatfield (bookplate). Restoration to the corner of the introductory leaves, some leaves a little yellowed.

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