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Guillaume COQUILLART. Les Œuvres maistre Guillaume Coquillart en son vivant Official de Reims nouvellement reveues... Small in-8, red jansenist morocco, 5-ribbed spine, blue morocco lining with large fanfare decoration with gilded fillets, foliate branches and fleurons, double endpapers, gilded edges ( Trautz-Bauzonnet). Brunet, II-266 // De Backer, 175 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-512-513. 156 f. (incorrectly numbered 158) / a-t8, u4 / 72 x 130 mm. Precious first edition in round letters, highly sought-after. Born in Reims around 1450, Guillaume Coquillart studied law in Paris, where he practiced as a lawyer. Tired of this city, where he observed the injustice and partiality of the great and the torments of love, he returned to Reims, where he devoted himself to the office of ecclesiastical judge. Works newly published, in which the text has been slightly revised. The small political pieces written by Coquillart are missing, but for the first time we find the Monologue du Pays and Monologue du gendarme cassé. Collected here are, Les droitz nouveaulx, Le Plaidoier, l'Enqueste dentre la simple & la Rusée, Le Blason des armes et des dames, Le monologue de la botte de foing, as well as the monologues du Puys, du gendarme cassé and des Perruques. A very fine copy in a lined binding by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
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Guillaume COQUILLART. Les Œuvres maistre Guillaume Coquillart en son vivant Official de Reims nouvellement reveues... Small in-8, red jansenist morocco, 5-ribbed spine, blue morocco lining with large fanfare decoration with gilded fillets, foliate branches and fleurons, double endpapers, gilded edges ( Trautz-Bauzonnet). Brunet, II-266 // De Backer, 175 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-512-513. 156 f. (incorrectly numbered 158) / a-t8, u4 / 72 x 130 mm. Precious first edition in round letters, highly sought-after. Born in Reims around 1450, Guillaume Coquillart studied law in Paris, where he practiced as a lawyer. Tired of this city, where he observed the injustice and partiality of the great and the torments of love, he returned to Reims, where he devoted himself to the office of ecclesiastical judge. Works newly published, in which the text has been slightly revised. The small political pieces written by Coquillart are missing, but for the first time we find the Monologue du Pays and Monologue du gendarme cassé. Collected here are, Les droitz nouveaulx, Le Plaidoier, l'Enqueste dentre la simple & la Rusée, Le Blason des armes et des dames, Le monologue de la botte de foing, as well as the monologues du Puys, du gendarme cassé and des Perruques. A very fine copy in a lined binding by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
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