GUIFFREY (Georges). The Criminal Trial of Jehan de Poytiers, - Lot 246

GUIFFREY (Georges). The Criminal Trial of Jehan de Poytiers, Lord of Saint-Vallier. Paris: Lemerre, 1867. Large 8vo, green half-maroquin with corners, decorated spine, gilt head, untrimmed (contemporary binding). First edition, published with an introduction and notes based on manuscripts from the Imperial Library. Beautiful title frame engraved by Ligny after La Charlerie, a fold-out woodcut plate (the town and castle of Loches), and another depicting scaffolds erected in a square. The binding is signed, but the signature (at the top of an endpaper) is illegible. Minor pinholes, scuffing on the binding.

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