Quatre vertus principalement necessaires à un prince pour bien & heureusement regner
Publisher: Privately printed by the author?
Published: 1617
Place of publication: France?
Language: fre; lat
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Education of princes; Early works to 1800; Monarchy
Other titles: Au roy. Sire, si la curiosité de vos subiets, & specialement de vos domestiques qui voyagent aux pays etranges est loüables ...
Work titles: Des quatre vertus principales et necessaires à un prince pour bien regner
Notes: In French and Latin, with continuous French text on rectos, and Latin quotations from Greek and Latin writers on versos.

Caption title.

First issue. Privately printed without a title-page for presentation to Louis XIII and his immediate circle. The title of the 2nd issue (which adds a 2nd part), reads: Des quatre vertus principales et necessaires à un prince pour bien regner ...

Dedication signed, leaf 3 recto: De Paris, ce 15. May 1617 ... Mareschal.

Signatures: A-H¹² I⁴.

Leaves printed on both sides, with last [3] pages blank.

Cf. Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature francçaise du dix-septiẻme siẻcle, 45814-45815. Cioranescu conflates the two issues.

Arbour, Roméo. L'ère baroque en France, 8550

Printed on thick paper; each page has printed area demarcated in red ink.

Bound in vellum, ruled and ornamented in gilt; all edges gilt; in CMI case.