Clément MAROT

Three quarto volumes in uniform contemporary full dark red morocco. Spines with raised bands richly decorated in gilt, boards tooled in the Du Seuil manner with double gilt panels and floral cornerpieces around the central compartment, gilt rolls to the board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt.

Bindings rubbed, with the corners slightly turned. Small loss of leather at the head of the New Testament volume and a loss at the foot of the lower joint of the first volume. The opening endleaf of volume I is becoming detached. The first six leaves of the New Testament show marginal browning from earlier damp exposure, extending...

Very rare first edition of this collection which brings together translations that had appeared separately before: The Georgics, translated by Richard Le Blanc (1554), The Eclogues, translated by Clément Marot (for the first) and by Richard Le Blanc (for the nine others) in 1555, and The Aeneid by Louis Des Mazures (first complete edition in 1560). This edition includes the verse translation, printed in roman type facing the Latin text printed in italics.
Manuscript ownership inscription on the title page.
Contemporary full calf binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt typographical motifs and blind fillets, covers decorated with...

First collected edition. First issue copy with the 2 identical title fleurons, enriched with 2 frontispiece portraits by Holbent but engraved by 2 different artists. Furthermore, no edition of Marot's poetry is recorded between 1615 and this one. Edition that joins the Elzevier collection.
Handsome edition, the most sought-after according to Brunet (III, 1458), who adds: "It is difficult to procure well-preserved copies with good margins and whose leaves do not have a reddish tint." Ours is of appreciable freshness with some very rare and very pale minimal foxing.
English binding in full glazed red morocco doublure of lemon morocco and signed with a red morocco pastille: St. James...

Marot's works saw numerous editions in the 16th century, far fewer in the 17th. Contains an abridged life of the author. Handsome edition, the most sought-after according to Brunet (III, 1458) who adds: 'It is difficult to procure well-preserved copies with good margins and whose leaves do not have a russet tint.' This is the appreciated case of our copy.
Bound in modern full vellum with overlapping flaps, pastiche of a Dutch-style binding. Unlettered spine. Endpapers renewed.

Reprint, by the same publisher, of the 1700 edition, 'the most sought-after' according to Brunet III, 1458 who adds: "It is difficult to find well-preserved copies with good margins and whose leaves do not have a russet tint."

Contemporary full brown sheep bindings. Spine with raised bands, decorated. A tear with loss at the junction of the upper joint and headcap of volume II.

Rubbing to corners and joints.

Complete edition, which even contains the translations made by Marot.
Bookplate Biblilothèque Tramar de Lamarque.