[BAUDOUIN DE FLANDRES]. L'Hystoire et cronicque du noble et vaillant Baudouyn conte de Flandres qui espousa le dyable. Paris, Michel Le Noir, s.d. [circa 1510]. Small in-4 of [66] ff, blue morocco, triple gilt fillet, coat of arms in the centre, spine decorated with small irons, inner lace, edges gilt on marbling (Trautz-Bauzonnet). A precious and extremely rare illustrated Gothic edition. This curious prose setting of a poem by an unknown author composed around 1450 was published in at least eleven Gothic editions in the space of a century, from 1478 to 1573. This Paris edition published by Michel Le Noir is the eighth listed by Bechtel. The only other known copy of this edition is in the British Library (C.39.d.17). The woodcut illustrations include a large figure on the title depicting Baudouin of Flanders and the Devil changed into a woman on horseback in a forest, 54 woodcuts in the text (13 of which are repeated) and two other full-page woodcuts on the last leaf: a Last Judgement on the recto and Michel Le Noir's mark on the verso. The work tells the story of Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, who married a devil, was set on the right path by a hermit, then took part in the Crusade and remained a prisoner of the infidels for twenty-five years. He then returned to Flanders, where his daughter Jeanne, wife of Ferrand of Portugal, had him put to death. This is a curious fictionalised version of the life of the real Baudouin IX of Flanders, who became Emperor of Constantinople in 1204 and was killed in 1206. A very fine copy bound by Trautz with the arms of Baron Seillière. From the libraries of Nicolas Yemeniz (1867, n°2339), with bookplate, Achille Seillière (absent from the sales of 1887, 1890 and 1893) and Charles Fairfax Murray (1910, n°26), with label. Angular repairs to 4 pages, including the title. Insignificant rubbing to the spines. Bechtel, B-65 (ex. cited) - Brunet, I, 706 - Fairfax Murray, n°26 (ex. described) - Essling, n°287 - Hain, 2707 - ISTC ib00282020.