“ Beautiful edition, the most sought after ” of the Works de Clement Marot, writes Brunet.
Superb and prestigious copy bound at the time in olive morocco
for Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette, distinguished Lyonnais bibliophile,
whose golden suns placed on the spines of the bindings are the mark.
Marot, Clément. The Works.
The Hague, by Adrian Moetjens, 1700.
2 volumes in 2 small 12mo volumes: I/ xvi pp., 318; II/ (1) f. of title, pp. 321 to 732, (16) pp. of table. Bound in full olive morocco of the time, gilt fillet framing the boards, spines with nerves adorned with armorial pieces depicting golden suns in the compartments, decorated edges, gilt inner roulette, gilt edges. Binding of the period.
131 x 75 mm.
The most precious 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 ornaments on both titles.
“ Beautiful edition, the most sought after… It is difficult to obtain well-preserved copies with margins, and whose sheets are not rust-colored ” says Brunet.
In his elegies, epistles, ballads, rondeaux, songs, laments, epigrams, and psalms, Marot indeed brings the best of old French poetry and truly popular inspiration under the varnish of court politeness.
Official poet adored by Francis I and Charles V, Marot marks with his talent the first truly remarkable era of French poetry whose spirit will reappear in La Fontaine who did not fail to pay tribute to “ Master Clément ”.
Superb 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 Lyonnais bibliophile, whose golden suns placed on the spines of the bindings are the mark.
“ Jacques-Annibal Claret of the Tourrette, baron ofEyrieu, lord of Fleurieu, Eveux and other places, son of Jacques-Claude, president of the Lyon mint court, and Bonne Michon, was born in Lyon on May 12, 1692. Known as the president of 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 in the Lyon mint court. He married Agathe Gauthier on December 12, 1722, was lieutenant-criminal 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 Lyon Academy; he died in his castle of La Tourrette à Eveux on October 18, 1776. A bibliophile like his father, whose collections he increased, he owned the finest library that Lyon had enclosed until then.
He sometimes placed a sun on the spine of his books.”
Olivier pl. 38.
Armorial bookplate on upper pastedown of Jacques-Annibal Claret of thea Tourrrette dated 1719.
