BELLIARD (Guillaume).
Ɵ the First Book of Poems. Paris, Pour Claude Gautier, 1578. In-4, purple morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior lace, gilt edges on marbling (Duru 1856).
First edition of the only published collection of poems by Guillaume Belliard, a poet from Besançon who was notably the secretary of Queen Marguerite de Navarre, to whom this collection is dedicated and which includes the following works: the Délitieuses amours de Marc-Antoine & de Cléopâtre, the two Triomphes d'amour et de la mort, as well as imitations of Ovid, Petrarch and Ariosto.
From the library of Count de Fresne (1893, n°258), with bookplate.
Some light foxing. Top of the boards faded.
J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°25. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°53.
