Artus DESIRÉ. Les Combatz du fidelle chrestien, dit papiste, contre l'infidelle apostat antipapiste..., all composed by Artus Désiré. In-16, blond calf, double fillet, spine with 4 ornate nerves ( Binding from the first half of the 19th century). Baudrier, IV-384 // Brunet, II-628 // Cioranescu, 7586. 166 f. (incorrectly numbered 165) / A-V8, X6 / 68 x 112 mm. New edition. Born around 1510 and died in 1579, Artus Désiré, a Norman priest, spent his leisure time, if not his life, writing against Calvinism, convinced as he was that the Catholic religion was in peril. His ardor bordering on fanaticism even led him to conspire against his homeland by calling on Philip II, King of Spain, to the aid of the French Catholic religion, which earned him a fine and five years' confinement in a Carthusian convent. Les Combatz du fidèlle chrétien, dit papiste contre l'infidèle apostat antipapiste is a dialogue of over 7,000 rhymed lines between the papist and the antipapist, set against a backdrop of numerous quotations from Scripture and the church fathers. The text was first published in Rouen in 1550 by Robert and Jehan Du Gort. Brunet and Cioranescu cite several editions. This is believed to be the fourth. It differs from the first in that the word antipapiste has replaced the original word priapiste. It is decorated with 27 small woodcuts in the text. Spine faded. Copy short of margins with damage to printed printed marginalia, some leaves stained.