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Premier[-second] volume des Cent excellentes nouuelles / de M. Iean Baptiste Giraldy Cynthien ... ; contenant plusieurs beaux exemples & notables histoires, partie tragiques, partie plaisantes & agreables, qui tendent à blasmer les vices, & former les moeurs d'vn chacun ; mis d'italien en françois par Gabriel Chappuys Tourangeau.

Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio, 1504-1573. author.; Chappuys, Gabriel, 1546-1613 or 1614.; Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913, former owner.; L'Angelier, Abel, active 1572-1609, printer.
1583
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Title
Premier[-second] volume des Cent excellentes nouuelles / de M. Iean Baptiste Giraldy Cynthien ... ; contenant plusieurs beaux exemples & notables histoires, partie tragiques, partie plaisantes & agreables, qui tendent à blasmer les vices, & former les moeurs d'vn chacun ; mis d'italien en françois par Gabriel Chappuys Tourangeau.
Uniform title
Ecatommiti. VIII.5. French
Created/published
A Paris : Pour Abel L'Angelier ..., 1583-1584.
Description
2 v. ; 17 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio, 1504-1573. author.
Chappuys, Gabriel, 1546-1613 or 1614.
Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913, former owner.
L'Angelier, Abel, active 1572-1609, printer.
Note
Signatures: v. 1: ã⁸, ẽ⁴, A-3R⁸ (-3R7,8) (F4 unsigned; K4 signed K3; 2Z2 unsigned); v. 2: ã⁸, ẽ⁴, A-2P⁸ (ã3 unsigned; 2L4 signed L4).
Cited/described in
Kelso, R. English gentleman, 414
Genre/form
Courtesy books.
Place of creation/publication
France -- Paris.

Call number
PQ4624.H4 F7 1583 Cage
Folger-specific note
Source of Othello, Measure for measure, and Cymbeline.

Folger copy imperfect: leaves 2O2 and 2O7, gatherings 3D and 3E lacking in v. 1.

Edward Dowden copy.

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