Histoire du bon chevalier sans peur et sans reproche le gentil Seigneur de Bayart, ornée de gravures
1882, New Edition. Paris : Garnier. Very good copy in the original elaborately gilt-blocked cloth over bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges; minor foxing internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright and strong. Item #413323
Physical description; 470 pages, frontispiece, illustrations, plates ; 25 cm. Notes; Full title: La très joyeuse, plaisante et récréative histoire du bon chevalier sans peur et sans reproche seigneur de Bayart, composée par le loyal serviteur. Attributed also to Jacques Joffrey. New edition, completed with extracts of other chronicles and with letters by Bayart, with notes and introduction by Louis Moland and drwaings by Osvaldo Tofani. First edition Paris, 1527. Subjects; Bayard, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de, approximately 1473-1524. Knights and knighthood France ; Biography. Soldiers France ; Biography. France History Medieval period, 987-1515.
Price: €100.00