URFÉ (Honoré d'). 
*Le Sireine*. Lyon: Printed at the Pont Press by Jean Brunet, 1617. Small 12mo (75 x 133 mm), orange shagreen, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, ribbed spine decorated with grotesque motifs, gilt edges (G. David).

8 + 154 pp., signed: à4, A-F12, G5.
A Rouen edition published with greater care than the original, which appeared between 1600 and 1604 (unknown even to Tchemerzine), of this allegorical poem revealing Urfé’s love for his sister-in-law, Diane de Châteaumorand, whom he married after she and her brother separated.
From the libraries of a college in Lyon, with a handwritten bookplate on the title page; William Poidebard; & Edmé Hermitte, with a bookplate.
Washed copy.
Tchemerzine-Scheler V, 936 (editions of 1611, 1615, 1617, and 1618); Cioranescu, XVII, 65, 144; Reure, Honoré d’Urfé, 73.
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URFÉ (Honoré d'). *Le Sireine*. Lyon: Printed at the Pont Press by Jean Brunet, 1617. Small 12mo (75 x 133 mm), orange shagreen, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, ribbed spine decorated with grotesque motifs, gilt edges (G. David). 8 + 154 pp., signed: à4, A-F12, G5. A Rouen edition published with greater care than the original, which appeared between 1600 and 1604 (unknown even to Tchemerzine), of this allegorical poem revealing Urfé’s love for his sister-in-law, Diane de Châteaumorand, whom he married after she and her brother separated. From the libraries of a college in Lyon, with a handwritten bookplate on the title page; William Poidebard; & Edmé Hermitte, with a bookplate. Washed copy. Tchemerzine-Scheler V, 936 (editions of 1611, 1615, 1617, and 1618); Cioranescu, XVII, 65, 144; Reure, Honoré d’Urfé, 73.

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URFÉ (Honoré d'). *Le Sireine*. Lyon: Printed at the Pont Press by Jean Brunet, 1617. Small 12mo (75 x 133 mm), orange shagreen, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, ribbed spine decorated with grotesque motifs, gilt edges (G. David). 8 + 154 pp., signed: à4, A-F12, G5. A Rouen edition published with greater care than the original, which appeared between 1600 and 1604 (unknown even to Tchemerzine), of this allegorical poem revealing Urfé’s love for his sister-in-law, Diane de Châteaumorand, whom he married after she and her brother separated. From the libraries of a college in Lyon, with a handwritten bookplate on the title page; William Poidebard; & Edmé Hermitte, with a bookplate. Washed copy. Tchemerzine-Scheler V, 936 (editions of 1611, 1615, 1617, and 1618); Cioranescu, XVII, 65, 144; Reure, Honoré d’Urfé, 73.
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