Walter K. Kelly - The Heptameron of Margaret - 1864

Title

The Heptameron of Margaret

Author

Walter K. Kelly

Year

1864

Description

An 1864 English translation of the celebrated Renaissance tale collection by Marguerite de Navarre, sister of Francis I of France and one of the most cultivated literary figures of sixteenth-century France. Kelly’s Victorian translation introduced Marguerite’s prose to a wider English readership. Finely bound in an accomplished tree calf binding, richly gilt, signed by the binder Denny, 304 Strand.

xliv, 427 pp.

Condition

Foxing throughout, heavier on p. 357; tape on p. 337.