Le Vingt et troisième livre d'Amadis de Gaule. continuant a traiter des Amours, gestes et faicts héroïques de plusieurs illustres et vertueux Princes descendus de la race du Grand Amadis : & notamment du vaillant Fulgoran, fils de Rogel de Grece & de la Roine Florelle. Discours non moins plaisant que profitable, comme chacun pourra facilement juger par la lecture, fait d'Espagnol François. First edition.
Paris: Olivier de Varennes, 1615. 8vo. 11 x 16.4 cm. [8]-920-[12] pp. Engraved frontispiece.
18th century calf with raised bands, dec. gilt backs w. red labels, inside dentelles & a.e.g. A little worn.... Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847)
Armorial bookplate of Edward Davenport. Arms: Argent, a chevron between three crosses-crosslet fitchée sable. Crest: A man's head couped at the shoulders and in profile proper, round the neck a halter or.
Probably to be identified with Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847) of Capesthorne, Chelford, Cheshire, UK.....
Brunet I, 217;
OCLC Number: 319915320..
Extraict du Privilège du Roy du 1er décembre 1614, signé Perrochel. Association avec Olivier de Varennes et Gilles Robinot.
[Epître dédicatoire] à la Royne mere du Roy, signée G. Robinot.
Sig. : ã4, A-Mmm8, Nnn4.
Front. gr. s. c. représentant quatre scènes du roman autour d'un cartouche au titre, signé "Iaspar Isac f." Bandeaux et lettrines gr. s. b.
A landmark work among the chivalric romances which were in vogue in sixteenth-century Iberian Peninsula, although its first version, much revised before printing, was written at the onset of the 14th century.
In Germany and England, Amadís was known chiefly through its French translations, sometimes much revised, and in England the cycle was generally referred to by its French title Amadis de Gaule. The French translations did not follow the Spanish book divisions exactly, and the entire cycle in the French version extends to 24 books. Note that the book numbers of the French translation do not always correspond to the book numbers of the Spanish originals, and in both languages, "book" is not the same as "printed volume"; physical printed books sometimes contained more than one "book" of the series. Item #16-4534
Price: $1,250.00