Effusions of Love from Chatelar by literary forger William Ireland first 1805

IRELAND, William Henry. Effusions of Love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland.
A literary forgery presented as a translation from a Gallic manuscript.

London: printed for C. Chapple, Pall-Mall, and Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, 1805.
 
Small 12mo (100 x 160 mm). [2], vi, 151 pp, [1] advert. Engraved frontispiece and seven engraved vignette tailpieces. Full calf, later, spine with five raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt with repeated floral tools, red morocco label lettered in gilt; endpapers renewed. Some foxing and browning to the first and last leaves; a couple of preliminary blanks with water-staining not affecting text or images; otherwise clean internally and well preserved. Very good.
 
A poetic work presented as deriving from a French manuscript connected with Pierre de Boscosel de Chastelard, the French courtier executed in 1563 following his attachment to Mary, Queen of Scots. This literary forgery belongs to the later career of William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), notorious for his Shakespeare forgeries of the 1790s.  As noted in institutional cataloguing, the work may be regarded as a quasi-forgery. Ireland's claim this time being that he was simply translator of a Gallic manuscript found in a College in Paris. Essentially though, he was bang at it again. 
 
A sound and attractive copy of Chatelar, by one of the most notorious literary forgers of the period.