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Du vray et parfaict amour / escrit en grec, par Athenagoras philosophe athenien ; contenant les amours honestes de Theogenes & de Charide, de Pherecydes & de Melangenie.

Fumée, Martin, approximately 1540-approximately 1590, author.; Sonnius, Michel, 1564?-1630, printer.; Bourbon, Louis Jean-Marie de, duc de Penthièvre, 1725-1793, former owner.; Bibliothèque du roi (France), former owner.
1599
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Title
Du vray et parfaict amour / escrit en grec, par Athenagoras philosophe athenien ; contenant les amours honestes de Theogenes & de Charide, de Pherecydes & de Melangenie.
Created/published
A Paris : Chez Michel Sonnius ..., MDXCVIIII [1599]
Description
[8], 388 [i.e. 389], [1] leaves ; 15 cm (12mo)
Associated name
Fumée, Martin, approximately 1540-approximately 1590, author.
Sonnius, Michel, 1564?-1630, printer.
Bourbon, Louis Jean-Marie de, duc de Penthièvre, 1725-1793, former owner.
Bibliothèque du roi (France), former owner.
Note
This novel is not a translation of a work by Athenagoras, but an original work by Fumée. Cf. Brunet.

"Auec priuilege du roy."

"Acheué d'imprimer le 25. Aoust. 1599"--Colophon.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁸ A-2I¹² 2K⁶.

Numbers 48 and 155 repeated; number 251 not included in foliation.

Includes index.
Cited/described in
Brunet I, 538
Quérard, J.M. Supercheries littéraires dévoilées, v. 1, col. 394-5
Cioranescu, A. 16 s., 10293
Genre/form
Printing privileges.
Place of creation/publication
France -- Pairs.

Call number
252- 465q
Folger-specific note
Folger copy: imperfect: leaves 224-226 wanting.

Folger copy: in contemporary laced-case vellum, with flaps extended at the fore-edge; dyed black in the 18th century and stamped on both covers with the gilt arms of Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, Grand Admiral of France. Stamp: Bibliothèque du Roi, Palais Royal.