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Les Nouvelles de Marguerite, reine de Navarre


Heptaméron français
After: Sigmund Freudenberger (Swiss, 1745–1801)
After: Balthazar Anton Dunker (German, worked in France and Switzerland, 1746–1807)
Engraved by: Joseph de Longueil (French, 1730–1792)
Engraved by: Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg (German, 1743–1790)
Engraved by: Robert de Launay (French, 1754–1814)
Engraved by: Louis Michel Halbou (French, 1730–1809)
Engraved by: Jacques Le Roy (French, born in 1739)
Engraved by: Matthias Gottfried Eichler (German, 1748–after 1818)
Engraved by: Benoît Louis Henriquez (French, 1732–1806)
Engraved by: Marie Elisabeth Thibault (Swiss, 18th century)
Author: Queen Marguerite of Navarre (French, 1492–1549)
Printer: Nouvelle Société Typographique
1792
Place of Publication: Berne, Switzerland

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 220 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall (each volume): 18.2 x 12.1 x 4 cm (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1487a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Berne: Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1792

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 681
Description(Berne: Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1792) Octavo, three volumes; [v. 1] 162 leaves, plus 22 plates; [v. 2] 156 leaves, plus 25 plates; [v. 3] 128 leaves, plus 27 plates; modern gilt-stamped, marbled (tree pattern) brown calf (Fraser).

Illustrations to pastoral, amatory, and moralized stories by Marguerite of Navarre.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1900 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.