Chevalier (Guillaume de): Le Decez ou Fin du Monde, Divisé en Trois Visions, Paris, chez Robert le Fizelier, 1584, 4to, first edition, woodcut printer's device on title, initials and decorations (final leaf with small, neatly-repaired hole at lower margin), brown morocco, gilt, circa 1900, by E. & A. Maylander. [Brunet I, 1837; Picot, Rothchild Catalogue IV, no. 2936]

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Chevalier (Guillaume de): Le Decez ou Fin du Monde, Divisé en Trois Visions, Paris, chez Robert le Fizelier, 1584, 4to, first edition, woodcut printer's device on title, initials and decorations (final leaf with small, neatly-repaired hole at lower margin), brown morocco, gilt, circa 1900, by E. & A. Maylander. [Brunet I, 1837; Picot, Rothchild Catalogue IV, no. 2936]

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Guillaume de Chevalier (d. 1620), poet and man of letters, was attached to the court of Henri IV. He greeted the birth of the Dauphin in 1601, wrote a tragedy and a book against duelling. The present work, his first, is written in imitation of a similar work by Du Bartas.

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