QUEEN ELIZABETH

THE MIRROR OF THE SINFUL SOUL, A Prose translation from the French

      - of a Poem by Queen Margaret of Navarre, made in 1544 by Princess Elizabeth (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth then 11 years of age. Edited by Percy W. Ames. London, Asher, 1897. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. iv, + 45 followed by Elizabeth's 1544 poem reproduced in facsimile (124 pages on hand-made paper). Frontis. portrait of Princess Elizabeth and reproduction of the embroidered cover of the original manuscript. Half-calf, marbled endpapers, with the coat of arms of the Royal Society of Literature stamped in gilt on the front cover. Some heavy foxing to the blanks and spotting to the uncut foredges, a very good copy. Percy Ames was the librarian and Secretary of The Royal Society of Literature and this copy is inscribed by him to Victor Leuliette Esq.