JACQUES (Jacques). L'Amy sans fard qui console... Lot 22

JACQUES (Jacques). L'Amy sans fard qui console les Affligez en Vers Burlesques, by Mr. Iacques Iacques, Canon created in the Metropolis of Our Lady of Ambrun. Lyon André Olyer 1664 in-12, (8ff.), 725pp. [2] pp Original edition of this copious piece of burlesque verse by the canon and apothecary of Embrun (Dauphiné), Cioranescu 35972, "Le mal marié", 'La Vesve", "Le goutteux", "La jeune fille, sur la perte de sa beauté, par la petite pérole", &c. Two prefaces: one to the docile reader, the other to the "cryptic" reader. less well known than his "Le Faut mourir." "The unvarnished Amy" consoles all the afflicted in verse: The maiden on the loss of her beauty by the "small verolle," the oppressed of the soldiers, the husband and wife in ill-intelligence, the ill-married, the gouty, &c. Bound in blond speckled calf, triple gilt framing on the boards spine with title on red morocco piece, gilt edges, gilt fillet on the edges, coloured combed endpapers. 3 bookplates: R chardey in Le Havre, And 2 of Couturier de Royas, a large one covered by a small one - The large bookplate would be that of the father, who was also called Paul. His son, after having inherited his father's library, would have marked his possession by affixing his ex-libris, taking care to cover it slightly according to a common practice to mark the succession of the possessors. Ancient family of magistrates from Royas, founder of the Bibliophiles dauphinois, benefactor of the B.M. of Grenoble which keeps its coll. its numerous mss, impressions and local biographies.