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Margaret, Queen of Navarre, 1492-1549

"The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. V. (of V.)"

_L'Heptameron des Nouvelles, &c_. Reprint of Gruget's edition,
sold by Vincent Sertenas, Gilles Robinot & Gilles Gille, and printed by
Benoist Prevost, Paris, 1560.
IV. _L'Heptameron des Nouvelles, &c_., 1560, 16mo. (No bookseller's or
printer's name appears in this edition. )
V. _L'Heptameron, &c_. (Gruget). Guill. Rouille, Lyons, 1561, small
12mo; Gilles Gilles, Paris, 1561, 16mo.
VI. The same. Norment & Bruneau, and Gilles Gilles, Paris, 1567, 16mo.
VII. The same. Louys Cloquemin, Lyons, 1572, 16mo (reprinted in 1578 and
1581).
VIII. The same. Michel de Roigny, Paris, 1574, 16mo (round letters).
IX. The same. Gab. Buon, Paris, 1581, 16mo.
X. The same. Abel L'Angelier, Paris, 1581, 18mo.
XI. The same. Jean Osmont, Rouen, 1598, 578 pp., sin. 12mo (good type).
XII. The same. Romain Beauvais, Rouen, 1598, 589 pp. 12mo.

In the seventeenth century the _Heptameron_ was frequently reprinted,
Gruget's text, with a few changes, being still followed until 1698, when
it occurred to some obscure literary man to put the tales into so-called
_beau langage_. At the same time the title of _Heptameron_, devised by
Gruget, was discarded (see post, No.


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