Francisci Hotomani Iurisconsulti celeberrimi, Francogallia: Nunc quartùm ab auctore recognita, & præter alias acceßiones, sex novis capitibus aucta

12mo. ff. [3] (blank), pp. [16], 229, [11], ff. [3] (blank). Morocco, gilded with red inlays, marbled endpapers. Plate with motto "Mente libera," "GES," "Champel." Printer's device on title page, reproduced at end. Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. The ordination sermon pronounced by Archbishop Boniface of Mainz in 751 upon King Pepin the Short, whose accession put an end to the Merovingian dynasty, appears only in this fourth edition of Hotman’s classic ‘manifesto of popular liberty’ (pp. 133-134 in Cap. XVI). It incorporates a polemic against the hereditary monarchy of France and is presumably a forgery, as Claude Fauchet pointed out fifteen years later (see Bib# 4102785/Fr# 247 in this collection). The ‘ancient manuscript of undetermined authorship’ that Hotman professed to have been sent has never since surfaced. H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, H1085.