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RONSARD (Pierre de).

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Les Œuvres. Revueues et augmentees. Paris, Nicolas Buon, 1609. Large folio volume, fawn calf, gilt fillet, gilt foliage medallion in center, ornate spine (Binding of the period). Eleventh collective edition, partly original, decorated with a fine architectural title-frontispiece engraved in intaglio by Léonard Gaultier and three woodcut portraits of Ronsard, Cassandre and Marc-Antoine Muret. It contains the Recueil des sonnets, odes, hymnes, élégies...(132 pages), which appears here for the first time, and includes a number of previously unpublished pieces, such as the 8 sonnets inspired by Hélène de Surgères and the very important Caprice à Simon Nicolas, secrétaire du roi et de ses finances, written after June 1584, the date of the death of the Duc d'Anjou and which marks Ronsard's rallying to Henri de Navarre, whose candidacy for the throne of France he accepts if he converts. Everything here contributes to Ronsard's consecration: the chosen format; the title, which presents him as the prince of French poets; the engraved frame, by Léonard Gaultier, with Ronsard's bust crowned by Homer and Virgil (Ronsard, la trompette et la lyre, n°273). Old handwritten bookplate on false title and frontispiece. From the Auguste-Pierre Garnier library (bookplate). Pleasant contemporary binding, decorated with a gilt foliage medallion in the center of the boards. Binding restored (spines and headbands), with new lining and endpapers. Covers foxed, restoration to the edge of the faux-titre and in the margin of the title-frontispiece. Tear without missing leaf Oooo1 (pp. 985-986), numerous spots. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, II-1, no. 61. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°771.

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