DU BUYS (Guillaume).

Ɵ The Works [sic]. Contenant plusieurs & divers traictez [...]. Paris, Guillaume Bichon, 1585. In-12, blue morocco, medallion of gilt foliage in the center, spine decorated with a repeated floral iron, interior lace, gilt edges on marble (Trautz-Bauzonnet). Second edition of the poetic works of Guillaume du Buys (1520-1594) : native of Cahors, this poet had won in his youth several crowns at the Floral Games of Toulouse, then left his native Quercy for Brittany where he was canon of the cathedral of Quimper. The first edition, of which the only copy presumed to be in private hands has been listed in the Berès catalog, Des Valois à Henri IV (n°83), was published in 1583 in Paris by Jean Février. The volume, issued from the presses of Guillaume Bichon, whose beautiful typographical mark adorns the title (Silvestre, n°380), includes speeches in verse on various subjects (nobility, avarice, liberality, the excellence of letters, friendship and the honorable duty of women towards their husbands, etc.) and numerous sonnets, several of which are addressed to the author's Breton friends. L'Oreille du prince, poem of 1582 which is presented as a long instruction to an unnamed sovereign, in the kind of those written by Erasmus and Ronsard for Charles-Quint and Charles IX, occupies the ff. 119 v° to 142 v°. One will also point out two pieces relating to the civil wars, the poem celebrating the recapture of Concarneau in 1577 and an elegy on the misery of the troubles of France, or the 12 sonnets addressed to the poet Guy du Faur de Pibrac. Handwritten ex-dono on the title. A beautiful copy, with large margins, in a nice binding with foliage medallion signed by Trautz-Bauzonnet. It comes from the libraries of Bancel (1882, n°330: the editor of the catalog says that the handwritten ex-dono on the title could well be the author's hand), Roger Portalis (1889, n°146) and Marigues de Champ-Repus (1893). Marginal notes on ff. 190 and 199 slightly damaged by the binder's knife. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-1, n°60. - Viollet-le-Duc, p. 268 (for the 1583 edition). - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°293