L'histoire des deux nobles et vaillans Chevaliers Valentin et Orson, fils de l'Empereur de Grece
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1645
Place of publication: Lyon?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Valentin et Orson (French romance)
Work titles: Valentin et Orson (French romance)
Notes: Houghton copy incomplete; lacking title-page; title from caption on leaf A2.

Printed in a roman fount in a single column, a typical Lyonese format for romances; woodcuts are unsigned, but some are the same as were used in the 1619 edition of Morgan le geánt printed in Lyon for Claude Chastelard (for example, the one on p. 104 is the same as the one on p. 4 in the Morgan le geánt), part of a large series especially made for the Histoire des quatre fils Aymon by a Lyonese engraver at the end of the 16th or early 17th c., many of which appear in later chivalric romances printed specifically in Lyon. The date of printing is conjectured from earlier bibliographies.

Signatures: A-Y⁴.

From the library of Count Paul Riant.

Incomplete: lacking title-page; rebound in 19th c. marbled boards.