The Hague, at Adrian Moetjens, 1700.
2 volumes in 2 small 12mo volumes: I/ xvi pp., 318; II/ (1) title page, pp. 321 to 732, (16) pp. of table. Bound in full olive morocco of the period, gilt fillet framing the boards, spines with raised bands adorned with arm pieces featuring gilded suns in the compartments, decorated edges, gilt inner roulette, gilt edges. Binding of the period.
131 x 75 mm.
The most valuable edition of the 17the 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.
“Lovely edition, the most sought after… It is difficult to obtain well-preserved copies with margins intact, and whose pages have not become foxed” mentions 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.
A celebrated official poet adored by Francis Ist and Charles V, Marot marks with his talent the first truly remarkable era of French poetry, whose spirit would reappear in La Fontaine who did not fail to pay homage to “Master Clément“.
Magnificent and prestigious copy, of utmost rarity in contemporary armorial binding.
Precious volume bound at the time in olive morocco for Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette (1692-1776), a distinguished Lyonnais bibliophile, whose golden suns impressed on the spines of the bindings are the mark.
“Jacques-Annibal Claret de la Tourrette, Baron d’Eyrieu, Lord of Fleurieu, Eveux, and other places, son of Jacques-Claude, President of the Lyon Cour des Monnaies, and Bonne Michon, was born in Lyon on May 12, 1692. Known as President de la Tourrette de Fleurieu, to distinguish him from his father, President de la Tourrette, he was the King’s counselor in his councils and President of the Lyon Cour des Monnaies. He married Agathe Gauthier on December 12, 1722, was the criminal lieutenant prévôt des marchands 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 Château de la Tourrette in Eveux on October 18, 1776. A bibliophile like his father, to whose collections he added, he possessed the finest library Lyon had ever housed until then.
He sometimes had a sun placed on the spine of his books.”
Olivier pl. 38.
Armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown of Jacques-Annibal Claret de la Tourrette dated 1719.
