Les arrets d'amours, avec L'Amant rendu cordelier, à l'Observance d'Amours

New edition prepared by Lenglet Du Fresnoy, with his notes and a glossary. A handsome title vignette. The last early edition.

19th-century binding in red half morocco with corners, signed Bauzonnet. Spine with five raised bands richly decorated in the grotesque style. Double gilt fillet on the boards. Top edge gilt on deckled edges. Spine somewhat faded. Some marginal worming, otherwise a handsome copy.

Ex-libris of the L. Pasquier library pasted on the first endpaper.

Les Arrest d'amour invents the fiction of a tribunal where matters of love are judged by decrees rendered by the court; 51 cases are thus followed, with contradictory statements from the parties; the ridiculous aspects of gallant life are mocked with great wit. This work, whose first edition dates from 1528 and which had profound success in its time, will be ranked among the first novels in literature. The work belongs to a literary genre developed during the Middle Ages, namely the courts of love, which were inaugurated by the Provençal poets of the 13^th century.