12mo. Volume I: 124 pp., steel engraved frontispiece, small closed tear to title page without any loss, / Volume II: 125-239 pp., [2], steel engraved frontispiece / Volume III: 122 pp., steel engraved frontispiece / Volume IV: 125-239 pp., steel engraved frontispiece, small tear across title page without any loss to text, contemporary full calf, title gilt on raised decorated spine, marble endpaper, all edges red, titles printed in red & black, from the collection of the Chevalier Loir, with his ex-libris bookplate, scattered foxing, otherwise copy in good condition, Amsterdam, chez Claude Jordan, third edition, 1722.

Synopsis

First edition published in 1699. The identity of the author remains uncertain, the majority of authorities including Barbier have suggested Baudot de Jully. Palau indicates that others believed that either Felix de Juvenil, the author of “Dom Pelage ou l’entrée des Maures en Espagne” or Gabriel de Bremont, the translator of “Guzman de Alfarache” was the true author.
For the three editions to have been published is a testimony to the considerable French interest in the subject.
Bibliographic references: Barbier, IV 232. Palau, 260 438. Foulche-Delbosc: Bibliothèque Hispanique 33.