guerite de Valois, Royne de Navarre, &c., dedie a tres
illustre et tres vertueuse Princesse Jeanne, Royne de Navarre, par
Claude Gruget, parisien_, Paris, Vincent Certena, or Jean Caveillier,
1559.

This contains all the Queen's tales excepting Nos. xi., xliv., and
xlvi., which Gruget replaced by others, probably written by himself. The
other stories are placed in their proper order, but none of the names
and passages suppressed by Boaistuau are restored. The phraseology of
the MSS., moreover, is still further modified and polished.

The text adopted by Boaistuau and Gruget was followed, with a few
additional modifications, in all the editions issued during the later
years of the sixteenth century. Most of these are badly printed and
contain numerous typographical errors:--

III. _L'Heptameron des Nouvelles, &c_. Reprint of Gruget's edition,
sold by Vincent Sertenas, Gilles Robinot & Gilles Gille, and printed by
Benoist Prevost, Paris, 1560.

IV. _L'Heptameron des Nouvelles, &c_., 1560, 16mo. (No bookseller's or
printer's name appears in this edition. )

V. _L'Heptameron, &c_. (Gruget). Guill. Rouille, Lyons, 1561, small
12mo; Gilles Gilles, Paris, 1561, 16mo.

VI. The same. Norment & Bruneau, and Gilles Gilles, Paris, 1567, 16mo.

VII. The same. Louys Cloquemin, Lyons, 1572, 16mo (reprinted in 1578 and
1581).

VIII. The same. Michel de Roigny, Paris, 1574, 16mo (round letters).

IX. The same. Gab. Buon, Paris, 1581, 16mo.

X. The same. Abel L'Angelier, Paris, 1581, 18mo.

XI. The same. Jean Osmont, Rouen, 1598, 578 pp., sin. 12mo (good type).

XII. The same. Romain Beauvais, Rouen, 1598, 589 pp. 12mo.

In the seventeenth century the _Heptameron_ was frequently reprinted,
Gruget's text, with a few changes, being still followed until 1698, when
it occurred to some obscure literary man to put the tales into so-called
_beau langage_. At the same time the title of _Heptameron_, devised by
Gruget, was discarded (see post, No. XVI.).

XIII. _L'Heptameron_, &c., printed by Ch. Chappellein, Paris, 1607,
18mo.

XIV. The same. _Sur Pimprime a Paris_, J. Bessin (Holland), 1615, sm.
l2mo (reprinted in 1698, 2. vols. 12mo).

XV. The same. David du Petit-Val, Rouen, 1625, 12mo.

XVI. _Contes et Nouvelles de Marguerite de Valois, Reine de Navarre, mis
en beau langage_. Gallet, Amsterdam, 1698, 2 vols, sm. 8vo. This edition
is valued not for its _beau langage_, but for the copperplate engravings
illustrating it.