MURET, Marc-Antoine
Juvenilia
Paris, Ex Officina Viduae Mauriccii a Porta, 1553
MARC-ANTOINE MURET OR "THE BEST ORATOR OF THE TIME" ACCORDING TO MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (THE ESSAYS, I, 25)
Reprint of the original edition published at the same address in 1552
In-8 (158 x 95 mm). Engraved initials, text ruled in red
COLLATION : A-H8 : 126 pp. and (1) f.
Eighteenth century binding. Blue morocco, gilt fillets in the frame, long spine decorated in the grotesque style with vertical titling, gilt edges.
PROVENANCE: Hubert, Marquis de Ganay (1888-1974; bookplate and mark in red ink at the end of the volume; Paris, November 26, 2019, n° 101)
Spine slightly omitted
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, III, col. 1952 -- Gérard Oberlé, Poètes néo-latins, n° 163 -- Jammes, Poètes latins de la Renaissance, n° 46
