FROISSART (Jehan). - The first volume of the history... Lot 288

[FROISSART (Jehan)]. - The first volume of the history and chronicle of Messire Iehan Froissart. The second volume [...]. The third volume [...]. ---- The fourth volume [...]. In Lyon, By Ian de Tournes, Printer of the King, 1559-1561. 4 volumes in 2?volumes small in-folio, ivory vellum, double framing of cold-stamped fillets decorating the boards, figure "L M" at the corners, spine with nerves decorated with the same figure (binding of the time)"Reueu & corrigé sur diuers Exemplaires, & suyuant les bons Auteurs, par Denis SAVVAGE de Fontenailles en Brie, Historiographe du Trescrestien Roy Henry IIe de ce nom."- [XIX (sur XX)] + 462 + [XXXIV] pp. (the last one blank). -- [XII] + 314 + [VI] pp. XII] + 363 + [V] pp. ---- [XII] + 350 + [VI] pp. (From the libraries of Canabelin, with handwritten bookplate on the titles, Séguin de Broin and Adrien Carlier, with bookplate.Title of the second volume replacing that of the first, in deficit; accidents with small losses and restorations at the foot of the dedication leaf to Anne, duke of Montmorency; some marginal spotting, butBeautiful copy in original decorated binding of this excellent edition given by JEAN DE TOURNES. This edition, which has become uncommon, is very beautiful and [...] deserves to be sought after" (Brunet, II, 1405-1406).