GAUCHET (Claude) Lot n° 22

The Pleasure of the Fields, divided into four parts according to the four seasons of the year. Where is treated of hunting, & of all other recreational, honest & virtuous exercise. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1583. In-4, green morocco, triple gilt fillet, small iron representing a gilt stag in the center, ornamented spine, same iron repeated in the caissons, interior lace, gilt edges on marbling (G. Benard). Schwerdt, t. I, pp. 199-200. - Thiébaud, col. 446-447. First edition of the most famous poetic collection of 16th century rustic literature. In his country poems, Claude Gauchet (c. 1540-after 1620), a poet close to the Pléiade and chaplain to Charles IX, paints an idyllic portrait of country life and gives very interesting descriptions of the pleasures of country life: hunting, fishing, grape harvesting, harvesting, gardening, gastronomy, village festivals and dances, etc. A perfectly bound copy from the famous library of Richard Schwerdt, the greatest Anglo-Saxon collector of hunting books in the 20th century. Some spotting, two interleaved leaves in the Collection of Words at the end. RECTIFICATION : 2 sheets (4 pages) in facsimile, an inverted table sheet