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Jehan BOUCHET. Lamoureux transy sãs espoir nouvellement imprime a Paris. vii. Plaquette in-4, bright red morocco, triple fillet, 5-rib spine decorated in the grotesque style, interior lace, gilt edges ( Niedrée). Bechtel, 84/B-280 // Brunet, I-1154 // Renouard, ICP, III-34 // Renouard, 474 // Rothschild, IV-2826 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-10 // USTC, 89959. (34f.) / A4, B8, C-E4, F6, G4 / 40 lines on two columns, gothic car. / 122 x 182 mm. Second edition according to Tchemerzine, and fourth according to Bechtel, of Jean Bouchet's second work. In any case, it is extremely rare. Prosecutor in Poitiers, Jean Bouchet (1476-1557) was a prolific writer whose works were much appreciated by his contemporaries. He was a friend friend of Rabelais and protégé of Louis de La Trémoille, for whom he was poet laureate (Bechtel). He was the first poet to use alternating masculine and feminine rhymes in most of his verses. His Amoureux transy is a mixture of prose and poetry in which he deals with a variety of subjects, love of course, but also a woman's lament over her husband's coffin, a letter from a certain M.D. to a young lady who had promised to take him in marriage, another letter from a fiancée to her fiancé, the love-struck man off to war in Naples, a dialogue in which the author brings in the king, the church and the prince, the love-struck man coming to ask the Virgin Mary for mercy and grace... The work concludes with l'amoureux transy faisant la cronicque du feu roi Charles Huytieme de ce nom, followed by Épitaphes d'ung lieutenãt en Poitou qui trespassa durãt le proces de son office lã mil. v cēs et deux. The first edition was published by Vérard around 1507. Tchemerzine and Brunet go on to describe the present one. It is also given as the second edition in the Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, in which it is dated 1521 due to the printer's mark Jehan Janot on the last leaf, reproduced by Renouard (no. 474). The edition cited by Bechtel as the second published by Trepperel is dated by him between 1512 and 1525. It was probably published between 1522 and 1525, after the present one. Title in red and black and 19 woodcuts in the text, 7 of which are repeated. The woodcuts are either large (3) or smaller (9). The title depicts a woman and a man in a garden, the man holding out a letter to the woman. Minor rubbing to hinges. Copy short in upper margin, last leaf restored. Provenance: Alfred-Henry Huth (ex-libris, I, November 15-24, 1911, no. 857) and Gancia bookshop dry stamp on one endpaper. Gancia on one endpaper.
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Jehan BOUCHET. Lamoureux transy sãs espoir nouvellement imprime a Paris. vii. Plaquette in-4, bright red morocco, triple fillet, 5-rib spine decorated in the grotesque style, interior lace, gilt edges ( Niedrée). Bechtel, 84/B-280 // Brunet, I-1154 // Renouard, ICP, III-34 // Renouard, 474 // Rothschild, IV-2826 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-10 // USTC, 89959. (34f.) / A4, B8, C-E4, F6, G4 / 40 lines on two columns, gothic car. / 122 x 182 mm. Second edition according to Tchemerzine, and fourth according to Bechtel, of Jean Bouchet's second work. In any case, it is extremely rare. Prosecutor in Poitiers, Jean Bouchet (1476-1557) was a prolific writer whose works were much appreciated by his contemporaries. He was a friend friend of Rabelais and protégé of Louis de La Trémoille, for whom he was poet laureate (Bechtel). He was the first poet to use alternating masculine and feminine rhymes in most of his verses. His Amoureux transy is a mixture of prose and poetry in which he deals with a variety of subjects, love of course, but also a woman's lament over her husband's coffin, a letter from a certain M.D. to a young lady who had promised to take him in marriage, another letter from a fiancée to her fiancé, the love-struck man off to war in Naples, a dialogue in which the author brings in the king, the church and the prince, the love-struck man coming to ask the Virgin Mary for mercy and grace... The work concludes with l'amoureux transy faisant la cronicque du feu roi Charles Huytieme de ce nom, followed by Épitaphes d'ung lieutenãt en Poitou qui trespassa durãt le proces de son office lã mil. v cēs et deux. The first edition was published by Vérard around 1507. Tchemerzine and Brunet go on to describe the present one. It is also given as the second edition in the Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, in which it is dated 1521 due to the printer's mark Jehan Janot on the last leaf, reproduced by Renouard (no. 474). The edition cited by Bechtel as the second published by Trepperel is dated by him between 1512 and 1525. It was probably published between 1522 and 1525, after the present one. Title in red and black and 19 woodcuts in the text, 7 of which are repeated. The woodcuts are either large (3) or smaller (9). The title depicts a woman and a man in a garden, the man holding out a letter to the woman. Minor rubbing to hinges. Copy short in upper margin, last leaf restored. Provenance: Alfred-Henry Huth (ex-libris, I, November 15-24, 1911, no. 857) and Gancia bookshop dry stamp on one endpaper. Gancia on one endpaper.
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