LA ROQUE (Siméon-Guillaume de).

Collection of 6 works in an in-12 volume, red morocco, jansenist, monogram stamped at the bottom of the spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru 1868). Collection of 6 poetic works by Sieur de La Roque, a poet from Clermont-Ferrand who was a disciple of Desportes and an imitator of the Italian neo-Petraquists of the 16th century. The pieces it contains were all sold separately: - Les Premières œuvres... [Les Amours de Phyllis]. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1600 (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°19.) - Les Amours de Caristée. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1599 (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 14). - Continuation of Ariosto's Angelica. Ibid (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 15). - Les Heureuses amours de Cloridan. Ibid (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 16.) - Les Amours de Pirame et Tisbée. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1600 (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 18). - La Chaste bergère, pastorale. Rouen, De l'Imprimerie de Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1599 (J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, no. 17). Only the Amours de Pirame et Tisbée are in the original edition. Les Premières œuvres contains the Amours de Phyllis, the poet's first collection of amorous verse, here in its fourth edition, the original having appeared in 1590. A fine copy, with the figure on the spine of Jules Marsan. Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°435-440.