[Laurens BELIN or Jean MAROT]. La Vray disant advocate des Dames. Small booklet in-8, long-grained purplish morocco, triple fillet framing with romantic fleurons at the corners and numeral AA in the center of the covers, smooth spine with long title, gilt edges ( Early 19th century binding). Bechtel, 59/B-80 // Brunet, V-1382, Supplément II-934 // Fairfax Murray, 612 // Harrisse, 254 // Renouard, ICP, IV-339 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, IV-557 // USTC, 53738. (16f.) / A-B8 / 26 lines, gothic car / 85 x 125 mm. Second or third edition of this work devoted to the defense, praise and victory of ladies' honor. It contains a two-page prologue, followed by the poem on folio A2, which ends on folio B8 and is followed by an acrostic. Tchemerzine cites the first edition around 1530, while Bechtel places it around 1525. The present edition, the second for Tchemerzine and the third for Bechtel, contains the acrostic in which the name Laurens Belin appears. These editions are also distinguished by the title, with the first featuring a woodcut of a woman holding a vase accompanied by a man, and the second a standing woman and a couple lying in bed. Tchemerzine indicates the edition published by Lotrian, but it was actually published by Guillaume de Bossozel, according to the materials used, wood, lettering and type. The piece was strongly claimed by Clément Marot for his father Jean Marot: Answer me. Pourquoy, en vos devis Blasmez vous tant feu mon père honoré Whom your sex decorated so well In the book called Ladies Advocate It was printed in the fifth volume of the works of the three Marots published by Lenglet du Fresnoy (La Haye, 1731), but this was before the acrostic was discovered by Brunet, who mentions it in his Manuel. In the end, it is unclear whether Jean Marot or Laurens Belin was the real author, as Belin may simply have been the publisher of the work. Fairfax Murray indicates that this is the only known specimen. Tchemerzine erroneously cites a second copy described by Harrisse in the Excerpta Colombiniana, which is in fact a copy of the original edition. 40 blank leaves have been bound into the copy, no doubt to thicken the volume and make room for the title on the spine. Binding formerly re-tinted. Leaves damaged and restored in the lateral margin, this margin sometimes a little short reaching the printed marginalia. Provenance: Adolphe Audenet (figure and bookplate, March 11, 1841, no. 1098) and Fairfax Murray (label, no. 612).