DORAT (Jean).

Ɵ Poëmatia. Paris, Guillaume Lonicer, 1586. 4 parts in one volume in-8, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Lemardeley). First collective edition of the works of Ronsard's master and the poets of the Pléiade. It contains a total of 557 pieces, mainly in Latin and Greek, many of which are addressed to the author's friends. On the back of the title, a beautiful portrait of the author in medallion, finely engraved on copperplate by the skilled Jean Rabel. Born in Limoges, the humanist and poet Jean Dorat (1508-1588) was for many years a professor at the Collège de Coqueret in Paris, where Ronsard, Baïf and Du Bellay became his students, acquiring from him a prodigious knowledge of Greco-Latin texts. From the Alfred Werlé library, with bookplate. Notebooks uniformly browned. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°80. - Picot, Rothschild, n°2789. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°223.