GARNIER (Robert).

Tragedies. - Les Juifves, tragedy. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1582-1583. 2 works in one volume, in-12, black morocco, boards framed with gilt fillet and decorated with a diamond-rectangle decoration drawn by scrolls of fawn morocco, gilt numeral in the center, ornate spine, repeated numeral, lining and endpapers of chocolate brown moire (Honegger). Second collective edition, in continuous pagination, containing the author's first seven dramatic plays (Bradamante, Porcie, Hippolyte, Cornélie, Marc-Antoine, La Troade and Antigone), and first edition of Les Juifves, his last tragedy. There are 2 pieces by Ronsard in the Tragédies. A native of Maine and friend of Ronsard, Robert Garnier (c. 1545-1590) drew much of his inspiration from the great ancient playwrights. Through his lyricism and the poetic quality of his tragedies, he established himself, alongside Étienne Jodelle, as one of the great dramatists of the French Renaissance. The volume, bound with the collector's own number and thus put together by him, brings together all of Robert Garnier's tragedies. Washed copy. An ink stain on folio 14. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°47. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., no. 58. - Tchemerzine, t. III, pp. 425-426. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°371-372.