L'Academie Francoise by Pierre de la Primaudaye. Newly Translated into English by T.B. [T. Bowes]. London: Thomas Adams, [1614].
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This book is thought to have been used as the source for the plot of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. This book summarises the main scientific and philosophical ideas of the time, often compared in style to Montaigne's Essays. Having read some of it, it's a very interesting read! Here presented in a contemporary full vellum binding, retaining one of the original ties. This is part one only, as usually encountered, and is very scarcely encountered in any state of completeness.
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Size: 152 x 202 mm (approx.)
Condition:
Contemporary full vellum binding, a little rubbed with some discolouration, retains one of the original ties, lacks the other. Binding secure with boards attached, page block securely attached to the binding, though with a slight gap at the rear, as often, but structurally secure. Some gatherings in the page block partially loose and thus causing some non-uniformity at the fore-edge. A few inscriptions to pastedowns of varying date, some fairly early, including a very interesting poem from an early female owner called Mary Coop, probably late 17th century to early 18th, probably by descent to George Toop, who has written an extremely neat inscription to the rear pastedown dated 1740. Uncollated, but this copy does lack several preliminary leaves and a few to the rear, the title page has been provided in manuscript facsimile loosely inserted in which does include an unverified collation which says the collation ends at the 3C5 verso.
