Le second tome des histoires tragiques / extraites de l'italien de Bandel, contenant encor dixhuict histoires traduites & enrichies outre l'inuention de l'autheur, par François de Belleforest Comingeois.

Novelle. Selections. French

A Paris : Pour Ianne Bruneau veufue de Vincent Sertenas ..., 1571.

460, [4] leaves ; 13 cm (16mo)

"Auec priuilege."
For information on the complicated bibliography of the French editions of Bandello, see the following: Bandello, Matteo. The French Bandello : a selection / edited with an introduction by Frank S. Hook. Columbia : University of Missouri, 1948, p. 46-51; Stone, Donald. Belleforest's Bandello: a bibliographical study (Bibliothèque d'humanisme et Renaissance, XXXIV, no. 3 (1972): 489-499); Bandello, Matteo. Histoires tragiques, édition critique publiée par Richard A. Carr [et la] Société des textes français. Paris : H. Champion, 1977, p. lxxviii-lxxxiii. For questions about authorship, see Hook.
Signatures: A-3M⁸.

France -- Paris.

PQ4606 .Z413 v.2 Cage

Folger copy: vol. 2 of a 7 v. set; vols. 4, 6, and 7 lacking; in early laced-case vellum binding, with flaps extended at the fore-edge; edges stained red; gilt panels and medallions; gilt spine decoration. Ownership inscription signed: Albert comte de Resy[?].