Author: [LEPESANT DE BOILGUILBERT (Pierre)]:
Title: Marie Stuart Reyne d'Ecosse.
Description: Paris [L. Billaine] 1675. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 142 x 84 mms., pp. [4], 5 - 312, in three parts, with separate title-page for each part, contemporary vellum (soiled); text block pulling away from binding at hinges, title-page (part one) with paper strip recto and verso obscuring "Reyne" in title, notes in pencil on recto of front free end-paper. A modest copy. This was the first book that Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646 - 1714) published; he was later to achieve distinction as an economist. His first important work on economics, Le Detail de la France, appeared in 1695. In the preface, he alludes to representations of Mary by George Buchanan, whose mendacities were published in 1571, and the Jesuit Nicolas Caussin, whose La Cour Sainte (1624) represents Mary as a persecuted innocent in contrast to the cold-hearted and heretical queen, Elizabeth. Having consulted fifteen or sixten authors, Pesant declares "si je cite Candenus [sic] plus souvent que les autres, c'est parce qu'estant Sujet d'Elizabeth, ce qu'il dit passer pour une verite incontestable." I assume the work to which he alludes is William Camden's Annales (1625).

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