Description
Louis DES MASURES. Chant pastoral sur le parlement de France, & la bien-Venue en Lorraine, de Monseigneur Charles Duc de Lorraine, et de Madame Claude de France son espouse. Plaquette in-8, caramel calf, triple fillet, smooth spine with long title, interior roulette, gilt edges ( Koehler). Brunet, II-636 // Cartier, Tournes, II-438 // Cioranescu, 7653. 28 (miscoded 26) / A-D4 (last two blank) / 104 x 160 mm. Second edition published the same year as the original by Didier Guillemin in Saint-Nicolas de Port. A French poet born in Tournay in 1523 and dying around 1574, Louis Des Masures was a protégé of Cardinal Jean de Lorraine and later of the Duchess of Lorraine. He embraced Protestantism and was forced to take refuge in Germany. He then returned to Lorraine and became a minister of the Holy Gospel in Metz, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and Strasbourg. He is the author of numerous works of poetry in Latin and French, as well as translations. This second edition is adorned on the title with a handsome frame featuring numerous small, more or less phantasmagorical characters. Copy ruled in red ink. Hinges rubbed with beginning of crack. Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz (bookplate,May 9 1867 et seq., no. 1825) and Joseph Renard (bookplate,March 21 et seq. 1881, no. 601).
73
Louis DES MASURES. Chant pastoral sur le parlement de France, & la bien-Venue en Lorraine, de Monseigneur Charles Duc de Lorraine, et de Madame Claude de France son espouse. Plaquette in-8, caramel calf, triple fillet, smooth spine with long title, interior roulette, gilt edges ( Koehler). Brunet, II-636 // Cartier, Tournes, II-438 // Cioranescu, 7653. 28 (miscoded 26) / A-D4 (last two blank) / 104 x 160 mm. Second edition published the same year as the original by Didier Guillemin in Saint-Nicolas de Port. A French poet born in Tournay in 1523 and dying around 1574, Louis Des Masures was a protégé of Cardinal Jean de Lorraine and later of the Duchess of Lorraine. He embraced Protestantism and was forced to take refuge in Germany. He then returned to Lorraine and became a minister of the Holy Gospel in Metz, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and Strasbourg. He is the author of numerous works of poetry in Latin and French, as well as translations. This second edition is adorned on the title with a handsome frame featuring numerous small, more or less phantasmagorical characters. Copy ruled in red ink. Hinges rubbed with beginning of crack. Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz (bookplate,May 9 1867 et seq., no. 1825) and Joseph Renard (bookplate,March 21 et seq. 1881, no. 601).
You may also like
