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THE DEBATE OF THE VIEULX AND THE YOUNG: Newly īprime. Small booklet in-4, red jansenist maroquin, 5-rib spine, interior roulette and filets, gilt edges ( Chambolle-Duru). Bechtel, 213/D-103 // Brunet, II-550. (8f.) / A-B4/ 26 lines, gothic car / 89 x 127 mm. Third edition of this verse play on the dangers of love. The two editions preceding this one are incunabula, without place, name or date. Our edition, which bears no printer's marks but is the first to mention a place, is illustrated with 3 woodcuts: on the title, a falconer and his valet, and on the verso of the title, a large woodcut depicting a young woman facing a king seated on his throne before an assembly of men. The third woodcut, on the verso of the last leaf, depicts a young man talking to a woman at a castle window. A delightful dialogue about love between an experienced old man and a young man he's trying to warn: I'm the povre vieulx and casse Damours to serve long Without having collected anything but regret, anguish and torment... To the youngster who asks where he comes from, the old man retorts: Tout droit du service d'amours / A peu que le cueur ne me fent / Tant y ay eu de maulvais tours / (...) / Ma jeunesse y ait laissee... He warns him against this futile world where the last is the best and there is no rest: Je le scay car jay faict loffice / Se ne ty trouve bien propice / Lon te tiendra pis que Varlet / Car il ny fault pas estre rice / Le beau y efface le let... The young man, then surprised that the old man seeing this hasn't left, draws this reply: Esperance de jour en jour / Me trompa / (...) / Je y a fait tout mon povoir / Mais les plus rouges y sont prins... This poem is not to be confused with Le Debat du jeune et du vieulx amoureux, attributed to Hugues de Blosseville. A very rare booklet on courtly love. Our copy is the only one cited by Bechtel. We have found no other. A very fine copy, despite a small angular restoration to one leaf. Provenance: Count Raoul de Lignerolles (II, March 5-16, 1894, no. 1110).
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THE DEBATE OF THE VIEULX AND THE YOUNG: Newly īprime. Small booklet in-4, red jansenist maroquin, 5-rib spine, interior roulette and filets, gilt edges ( Chambolle-Duru). Bechtel, 213/D-103 // Brunet, II-550. (8f.) / A-B4/ 26 lines, gothic car / 89 x 127 mm. Third edition of this verse play on the dangers of love. The two editions preceding this one are incunabula, without place, name or date. Our edition, which bears no printer's marks but is the first to mention a place, is illustrated with 3 woodcuts: on the title, a falconer and his valet, and on the verso of the title, a large woodcut depicting a young woman facing a king seated on his throne before an assembly of men. The third woodcut, on the verso of the last leaf, depicts a young man talking to a woman at a castle window. A delightful dialogue about love between an experienced old man and a young man he's trying to warn: I'm the povre vieulx and casse Damours to serve long Without having collected anything but regret, anguish and torment... To the youngster who asks where he comes from, the old man retorts: Tout droit du service d'amours / A peu que le cueur ne me fent / Tant y ay eu de maulvais tours / (...) / Ma jeunesse y ait laissee... He warns him against this futile world where the last is the best and there is no rest: Je le scay car jay faict loffice / Se ne ty trouve bien propice / Lon te tiendra pis que Varlet / Car il ny fault pas estre rice / Le beau y efface le let... The young man, then surprised that the old man seeing this hasn't left, draws this reply: Esperance de jour en jour / Me trompa / (...) / Je y a fait tout mon povoir / Mais les plus rouges y sont prins... This poem is not to be confused with Le Debat du jeune et du vieulx amoureux, attributed to Hugues de Blosseville. A very rare booklet on courtly love. Our copy is the only one cited by Bechtel. We have found no other. A very fine copy, despite a small angular restoration to one leaf. Provenance: Count Raoul de Lignerolles (II, March 5-16, 1894, no. 1110).
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