Effusions of love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated from a Gallic manuscript, In the Scotch College at Paris. Interspersed with songs, sonnets, and notes explanatory, by the translator

<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">2 copies in this collection. 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [iv], vi, 151, [1]. Signatures: [A]4 B-K8 L4. Tailpieces. Half calf. Marbled boards, gilded spine on 4 bars with red panel, edges spread in red. Manuscript note on front pastedown: “sold for ₤1.70 at Brockett’s sale” and on first blank: “J.H.A. 19. July 1833. are the vignettes by Berwick?” Pencil marginalia, contains frontispiece.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of a quasi forgery by William Henry Ireland focusing on Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard, the French noble poet who was executed after trespassing Queen Mary Stuart’s quarters. Ireland claimed to have found Chastelard’s manuscripts at the Scots College in Paris including his poems addressed to Queen Mary.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103230" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>