“Beautiful edition, the most sought-after” of the Works de Clément Marot, Brunet writes.
Superb and prestigious copy bound at the time in olive morocco
for Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette, distinguished Lyon bibliophile,
whose golden suns embossed on the spines of the bindings are the mark.
Marot, Clément. The Works.
The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1700.
2 volumes in 2 small 12mo parts: I/ xvi pp., 318; II/ (1) title leaf, pp. 321 to 732, (16) table of contents pp. Bound in full contemporary olive morocco, gilt fillet framing the boards, spines with raised bands adorned with panels of arms featuring gilded suns, decorated edges, gilt interior borders, gilt edges. Contemporary binding.
131 x 75 mm.
The most precious edition of the 17th century.
Brunet, III, 1458; Tchemerzine, IV, 506; Graesse, IV, 411; Catalogue Rothschild 615; Bulletin Morgand et Fatout 11362.
First issue copy under this date, with the same floral designs on both titles.
“Beautiful edition, the most sought-after… It is difficult to acquire well-preserved margin copies, and whose pages do not have a reddish tint” mentions Brunet.
In his elegies, epistles, ballads, rondeaux, songs, laments, epigrams, and psalms, Marot indeed brings forth the best of ancient 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 era of French poetry, whose spirit reappears in La Fontaine who did not fail to pay tribute to “Master Clément”.
Superb and prestigious copy, of extreme rarity in contemporary armorial binding.
Precious volume bound at the time in olive morocco for Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette (1692-1776), distinguished Lyon bibliophile, whose golden suns embossed on the spines of the bindings are the hallmark.
“Jacques-Annibal Claret of the Tourrette, Baron ofEyrieu, Lord of Fleurieu, Eveux and other places, son of Jacques-Claude, president of the Lyon Currency Court, and Bonne Michon, was born in Lyon on May 12, 1692. Known as the president of Tourrette Fleurieu, to distinguish him from his father, the president of Tourrette, he was counselor to the King in his councils and president in the Lyon Currency Court. He married Agathe Gauthier on December 12, 1722, was lieutenant-general provost of merchants and commander for the King in the city of Lyon from December 11, 1740, to late December 1745 and perpetual secretary of the Lyon Academy; he died at his castle of the Tourrette à Eveux on October 18, 1776. A bibliophile like his father, whose collections he augmented, he owned the finest library that Lyon had contained until then.
He sometimes had a sun embossed on the spine of his books.”
Olivier pl. 38.
Armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown of Jacques-Annibal Claret de la Tourrette dated 1719.
