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[FAIRFAX MURRAY] - DAVIES (H. WM.). CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY GERMAN BOOKS in the library of c. Fairfax Murray. London, The Hollard press, 1962. 2 vol. in-4°, publisher's ivory half-cartonnage. Good condition.

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[FAIRFAX MURRAY] - DAVIES (H. WM.). CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY GERMAN BOOKS in the library of c. Fairfax Murray. London, The Hollard press, 1962. 2 vol. in-4°, publisher's ivory half-cartonnage. Good condition.

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DEMANDS DAMOURS With ioyeous Responses. Small booklet in-8, midnight-blue morocco, triple fillet, 5-rib spine decorated in the grotesque style, interior lace, gilt edges ( Bauzonnet-Trautz). Barbier, I-874 // Not in Baudrier // Bechtel, 219/D-151 // Brunet, Supplément I-359 // Fairfax Murray, 118 // Gultlingen, VI-121 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-309c // USTC, 38715. (12f.) / A8, B4 / 22 long lines, gothic car / 82 x 134 mm. Very rare booklet devoted to courtly love. This work, of which there were numerous editions as early as 1490, is the written version of a courtly aristocratic game called "jeu du roy qui ne meurt". It consists of prose questions and answers exchanged between the Lover and the Lady: I ask you. Qui est lennemy mortel qui le chastel peult grever. Response. Eslongner. The text has long been wrongly attributed to Alain Chartier. None of Bechtel's editions are dated. The present edition features the title in Roman script and the sequel in Gothic script, and is illustrated with a fine woodcut on the title depicting a man holding a flower facing a group of young women. It was issued by the printer and bookseller Jacques Moderne, also known as (Le) Grand Jacques, established in Lyon before 1523 and specialized in music publishing, a printer and bookseller who escaped Baudrier. This booklet is very rare. Our copy is cited by Brunet, is said to be the only one known according to Fairfax Murray, and all bibliographies refer only to it. It is also the only one cited by the USTC. A fine copy, fully ruled in red ink. The upper margin has been redone throughout the entire volume, while the lower margin is untouched and fully witnessed. Provenance: Fairfax Murray (unlabelled, no. 118) and most probably Adolphe Audenet (1839 catalog, no. 508, described as bound in blue morocco with a large number of witnesses at the bottom of the margins, very short at the top).

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The DOCTRINAL OF GOOD SERVANTS. Booklet, small, in-4, bright red jansenist morocco, 5-rib spine, interior roulettes and fillets, gilt edges ( Chambolle-Duru). Bechtel, 240/D-336 // Brunet, II-781 // USTC, 79167. (4f.) / [ ]4 / 26 lines with line spaces, car. goth. / 86 x 132 mm. Third edition of these series of rules that servants must respect with regard to their masters if they want to be good servants. These rules, laid down in 28 stanzas of four verses of eight syllables each, concern obedience, respect for masters, respect for God, honesty, but also conduct at table and in other circumstances of life. Some stanzas concern respect for and obedience to religious rules. The book ends with this stanza: Servans celuy qui gardera And will put in his heart These rules all good he'll have Thus becomes the Varlet maistre Brunet and Bechtel describe four editions, the first of which is incunabula, in Paris, circa 1490-1495, and the other three after 1520. The one presented here was published in Paris around 1510 according to Fairfax Murray, and around 1530 according to Bechtel. It is decorated on the title with a woodcut depicting a master and his servant against a landscape background, and on the verso of the last leaf with another woodcut depicting Christ among the doctors of the law according to Fairfax Murray, and a master and his servants according to the notice on the Lignerolles copy. A very fine copy, finely bound by Chambolle-Duru. Provenance: Fairfax Murray (label, no. 130).

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