“Pretty edition, the most sought after” of the Works de of Clément Marot, writes Brunet.
Magnificent and prestigious copy bound at the time in olive morocco
for Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette, distinguished bibliophile from Lyon,
whose golden suns affixed to the spine of the bindings are his mark.
Marot, Clément. The Works.
The Hague, at Adrian Moetjens, 1700.
2 volumes in 2 small duodecimo tomes: I/ xvi pages, 318; II/ (1) title leaf, pages 321 to 732, (16) pages of table. Bound in full olive morocco of the time, gilt fillet framing the boards, spines with raised bands adorned with devices featuring golden suns in the compartments, decorated edges, gilt inner roulette, gilt edges. Binding of the time.
131 x 75 mm.
The most valuable edition of the 17th century.
Brunet, III, 1458; Tchemerzine, IV, 506; Graesse, IV, 411; Rothschild Catalogue 615; Morgand and Fatout Bulletin 11362.
First issue copy under this date, having the same embellishments on both titles.
“Pretty edition, the most sought after… It is difficult to find copies well-preserved in margins, and whose leaves do not have a reddish tint” writes Brunet.
In his elegies, epistles, ballads, rondeaux, songs, laments, epigrams, and psalms, Marot indeed brings the best of ancient French poetry and a truly popular inspiration under the veneer of courtly politeness.
An official poet adored by Francis I and Charles V, Marot marks with his talent the first really notable period of French poetry whose spirit reappears in La Fontaine who did not fail to pay homage to “Master Clément”.
Magnificent and prestigious copy, of great rarity in armorial binding of the time.
Precious volume bound at the time in olive morocco for Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette (1692-1776), distinguished bibliophile from Lyon, whose golden suns affixed to the spine of the bindings are his mark.
“Jacques-Annibal Claret of the Tourrette, baron ofEyrieu, lord of Fleurieu, Eveux and other places, son of Jacques-Claude, president of the currency court of Lyon, and Bonne Michon, was born in Lyon on May 12, 1692. Known as the president of the Tourrette of Fleurieu, to distinguish him from his father, the president of the Tourrette, he was counselor to the King in his councils and president at the currency court of Lyon. He married Agathe Gauthier on December 12, 1722, was criminal lieutenant provost of merchants and commander for the King in the city of Lyon from December 11, 1740, to the end of December 1745 and perpetual secretary of the Academy of Lyon; he died in his castle of the Tourrette à Eveux on October 18, 1776. A bibliophile like his father, whose collections he enlarged, he possessed the finest library Lyon had ever housed until then.
He sometimes affixed a sun on the spine of his books.”
Olivier pl. 38.
Armorial bookplate on the upper endpaper of Jacques-Annibal Claret de la Tourrrette dated 1719.
