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[DU FAIL, NOËL.] Les Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel. Par le feu Seigneur de la Herissaye, Gentil-homme Breton [pseud.]. [4], 223 [i. e., 219], [1] leaves. 8vo, 164x100 mm, late 18th-century black straight-grain morocco gilt with pink silk doublures and endleaves, spine ends, raised bands and joints scuffed; scattered light foxing. Bookplate of Francis John Hughes. Rennes: Noël Glamet, 1597
Collection of satiric tales of Breton life first published in 1585. Alden 597/20 (for reference to the discovery of Canada by the Breton Jacques Cartier); Tchemerzine (1977) III, 110a. The author William Beckford's copy, with a couple of notes in French in his hand on the front flyleaf; sold as lot 2669 in the first Hamilton Palace Library sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 11 July 1882.
