113 - [AMADIS OF GAUL] [The Eighth Book of Amadis of Gaul. Paris, 1548]. A folio volume, full brown morocco leather, covers adorned with an elegant geometric design of interlaced gold circles, ribbed spine decorated with gold geometric motifs (binding signed by Marius Magnin).

[AMADIS OF GAUL] [The Eighth Book of Amadis of Gaul. Paris, 1548]. A folio volume, full brown morocco leather, covers adorned with an elegant geometric design of interlaced gold circles, ribbed spine decorated with gold geometric motifs (binding signed by Marius Magnin). A fine 16th-century edition of this famous chivalric novel, in the French translation by Nicolas d’Herberay des Essarts, illustrated with numerous woodcuts depicting chivalric scenes. Incomplete copy, comprising 3 title leaves (e1–e3), one unnumbered leaf, and leaves numbered 1 through 177. The text ends at the beginning of Chapter XCV, on leaf CLXXVII. Missing are the title page, several introductory folios, folios XX, XXIII, XXIV, CIII through CVIII, CLXVI, CLXVII, CLXXVI, and the final folios of the text.