Guillaume de Saluste DU BARTAS
Commentaires et annotations sur la Sepmaine de la Création du monde [ENSEMBLE] La Judith de G. de Saluste, seigneur du Bartas. Revue, augmentée d'Argumens, Sommaires, & Annotations. A Madame Marguerite de France, Royne de Navarre. [Du Bartas His Divine Weeks and Works]
Timothée Jouan • Abel L'Angelier|Paris 1583|18.6 x 25.5 cm|Relié
A set of two important texts by Du Bartas, a major poet of the French Renaissance. The quarto edition of 1583 of La Sepmaine de la Création du monde, described as "magnificent" by historian Lyndan Warner, adorned with an engraved title-page, is frequently found together with the work on Judith. These texts were originally published in 1578 and 1574 respectively.
Contemporary gilt vellum binding with the cipher "LBH[?]", smooth spine decorated with stylised fillets and a cipher, a single fillet and four ciphers forming a border to the boards, centred with a foliate centre-piece enclosing a cipher, all edges gilt. Manuscript ownership inscription in brown ink at the foot of the engraved...
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