Les Oeuvres de publie Virgile Maron, prince des poètes latins

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 multiple blind ruling frames, gilt fleurons at corners and stamped with a large gilt typographical motif at their center. Binding very skillfully restored.