Jean PASSERAT
Recueil des oeuvres poetiques. — Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia
Chez Abel l'Angelier|Paris 1606|11 x 16.50 cm|2 ouvrages reliés en un volume
Posthumous editions of these works, prepared and published by Jean de Rougevalet, the author's nephew. The Recueil is decorated with a lovely portrait of Passerat, engraved on copper by Thomas de Leu. Among the various French pieces it contains, one finds his famous cynegetic poetry: Le Cerf d'amour, Le Chien courant and Adonis ou la chasse du sanglier. Viollet-le-Duc's copy, with his bookplate.
Later binding (mid-18th century) in full marbled blonde calf, spine with five raised bands decorated with compartments and gilt fleurons, as well as a red morocco title label, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, all edges red.
In the Recueil: repair at head of gathering C, light dampstaining to a few leaves. The last leaf of the Poëmatia, blank, has not been preserved. The last gathering of the volume, shorter in side margin, appears to come from another copy and was added at the time of binding. Small defect to head of spine.
Later binding (mid-18th century) in full marbled blonde calf, spine with five raised bands decorated with compartments and gilt fleurons, as well as a red morocco title label, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, all edges red.
In the Recueil: repair at head of gathering C, light dampstaining to a few leaves. The last leaf of the Poëmatia, blank, has not been preserved. The last gathering of the volume, shorter in side margin, appears to come from another copy and was added at the time of binding. Small defect to head of spine.
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