Chroniques françoises de Jacques Gondar clerc
By: publiées par F. Michel, suivies de Recherches sur le style par Charles Nodier
Publisher: Louis Janet
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: History; Fiction; French language; Style
Other titles: Chroniques françaises de Jacques Gondar clerc; David and Shiu-min Block Collection of Bookbindings (Houghton Library)
Notes: Last eight pages are [7] pages of music with the last page blank.

A hoax created by Michel; with four plates and title illuminated in a medieval style (including hand-coloring in some copies).

Carteret, III, p. 276

Vicaire, G. Livres du 19. s., III, 1071

Library of Peter A. Wick [catalog], 91

Gift; Mrs. Edward V. Lee; 23 November 1998; 2004G-59.

Contemporary engraved bookseller's ticket: Librairie de E. Le Grand, garde M.N. Reneault [?}, rue Gaulerie, 26, Rouen; modern bookplate of Cornelius J. Hauck, Cincinnati.

Plates colored.

Plates colored.

Plates uncolored.

Plates uncolored.

Blue embossed velvet-covered boards; silked endpapers with designs immitating tree calf; contemporary morocco slipcase; in CMI case.

Green embossed velvet-covered boards; silked endpapers with fleurs-de-lis designs; in CMI case.

In CMI case.

Gilt navy calf-backed blue silk boards.
Table of contents: title: L'Hystoire de Jehan de Ballor; title: Le Roumans de Blondiaus de Nesle; title: L'Hystoire de messire Robert de Castelnau; title: L'Hystoire de messire Foulques de Chenas; title: Notes et éclaircissements; title: Recherches sur le style, par M. Ch. Nodier.