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From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Mary, Queen of Scots] | L'innocence de la tresillustre Marie Royne d'Escosse, [Reims], 1572, Duke of Manchester copy

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

December 12, 01:36 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft


[Mary, Queen of Scots]


L'innocence de la tresillustre tres-chaste, et debonnaire princesse, Madame Marie Royne d'Escosse. [Reims], 1572


THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER COPY, 8vo (161 x 101mm.), with two errata leaves at the end (apparently not in the Pepys copy), early manuscript notes at the beginning (in Latin) and on the blanks Aa7-8 (in English), nineteenth-century calf, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, some spotting and soiling to prelims, extremities slightly rubbed


The authorship of this defence of Mary as been attributed to John Leslie and François de Belleforest, but was plausibly a collaborative affair.


LITERATURE:

USTC 342


PROVENANCE:

"Fra: St John" (probably Francis St. John of Thorpe Hall, Peterborough, 1634-1705, lawyer and politician), ownership inscription to title; Duke of Manchester, Kimbolton Castle shelf-label, sale, Sotheby's, 1 May 1991, lot 977

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