The famous romance of Tarsis and Zelie. : Digested into ten books. VVritten originally in French, by the acute pen of a person of honour. Done into English by Charles Williams, gent.

The famous romance of Tarsis and Zelie. : Digested into ten books. VVritten originally in French, by the acute pen of a person of honour. Done into English by Charles Williams, gent.

Tarsis et Zelie. English

London : Printed for Nathanael Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultry, 1685.

[6], 330 p., [1] leaf of plates (engraving) ; (fol.)

"A person of honour" = Roland Le Vayer de Boutigny.

A translation by Charles Williams of Le Vayer de Boutigny, Roland. Tarsis et Zelie.

Frontispiece landscape engraving signed, "Sturt fe:".

Title page in red and black.

Bodleian Library copy identified on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 2723, as Wing L1797A.

Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-T⁴ U1.

Signatures from DFo.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), L1797
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R25799

Great Britain -- England -- London.

147- 058f

Text foxed, stained, affecting occasional text. Bound in old mottled calf. Provenance: inscribed: "Sum E Libr Pr Powell" (Peter?); Folger purchase from H.W. Edwards, cat. 62:165, 5 October 1954