“ Pretty edition, the most sought after ” of the Works de of Clément Marot, writes Brunet.
Superb and prestigious copy bound in contemporary olive morocco
for Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette, distinguished bibliophile from Lyon,
whose gilded 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: I/ xvi pp., 318; II/ (1) leaf of title, pp. 321 to 732, (16) pp. of table. Bound in contemporary full olive morocco, gilt fillet bordering the covers, spines with raised bands adorned with armorial pieces depicting gilded suns in the compartments, decorated edges, gilt inner roulettes, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
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.
Copy of the first issue under this date, having the same devices on both titles.
“ Pretty edition, the most sought after… It is difficult to find well-preserved copies with margins, and whose leaves have not turned brownish ” mentions Brunet.
In his elegies, epistles, ballads, rondeaux, songs, complaints, epigrams, and psalms, Marot indeed brings the best of old French poetry and a genuinely 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 truly remarkable period of French poetry, the spirit of which will reappear in La Fontaine who did not fail to pay tribute to “Master Clément”.
Superb and prestigious copy, of great rarity in its contemporary armorial binding.
Precious volume bound in contemporary olive morocco for Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette (1692-1776), distinguished bibliophile from Lyon, whose gilded suns placed on the spines of the bindings are the mark.
“ Jacques-Annibal Claret of the Tourrette, baron of Eyrieu, 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 the Tourrette of Fleurieu, to distinguish him from his father, the president of the Tourrette, he was a counselor of 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 Academy of Lyon; he died in his castle of the Tourrette à Eveux on October 18, 1776. A bibliophile like his father, to whose collections he added, he owned the most beautiful library that Lyon had contained until then.
He sometimes placed a sun on the spine of his books.”
Olivier pl. 38.
Armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown of Jacques-Annibal Claret of thea Tourrrette dated 1719.
