[MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE]. Le Tombeau de Marguerite de Valois royne de Navarre. Done first in Latin disticks by the three princess sisters in England... Avec plusieurs Odes, Hymnes, Cantiques, Epitaphes, sur le même sujet. Paris, Michel Fezandat & Robert Granjon, Vincent Sertenas, 1551. In-8, blue morocco, floral medallion enclosing a gilt fleur-de-lys in the centre, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet). First edition of this extremely rare poetic tomb. This collective collection was composed on the death of Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême (1492-1549), sister of François I and Queen of Navarre, and published and annotated by Nicolas Denisot, known as the Conte d'Alsinois. It first includes the one hundred Latin couplets by the sisters Anne, Margaret and Jane de Seymour, daughters of the regent of England Edward Seymour, which had been published separately a year earlier. These poems are accompanied here by their Greek translation by Jean Dorat, their Italian translation by Jean-Pierre de Mesmes, and two French versions: the first by Joachim Du Bellay, the second by the publisher, Antoinette de Loynes and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. This is followed by fifty-five pieces in original editions by Baïf, Du Bellay, Dorat, Du Tillet, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe and others, including four by Ronsard, starting with the ode Aux trois sœurs Seymour that opens the collection. Finally, the volume ends with a Latin epitaph by Denisot printed in capital letters within a double filleted frame. The printing, in round letters for the Latin original and in italics and Greek for the translations, is by the famous type engraver Robert Granjon. The volume is decorated with the typographical mark used by Michel Fezandat during his association with Granjon on the title, a medallion portrait of Marguerite de Navarre at the age of 52 on the verso of the same page, and foliate lettering on a white background. A very fine copy in an elegant binding by Trautz-Bauzonnet. From the libraries of Charles Nodier (1844, n°392), the Comte de Fresne (1893, n°209), and Léon Rattier (1913, I, n°90), with bookplates. The volume was bound in green morocco by Vogel at the last Nodier sale, but it was rebound by Georges Trautz after 1851 - certainly at the request of the Comte de Fresne, who "only admitted..., as far as bindings were concerned, those of Trautz-Bauzonnet. He sometimes had old bindings broken... to replace them with leatherwork by the great artist, of whom he was a faithful client" (D'Eylac). Le Petit, 64 - Cioranesco, n°14158 - Rothschild, n°628 - Saunders-Wilson, n°925 - Brunet, V, 879.