Jean and Jacques de LA TAILLE. The Famine, or the Gabeonites... - Saul le Furieux... Ibid, id, 1572. - Daire... Ibid, id.., 1573. - Alexander. Ibid, id, 1573. - La Manière de faire des vers en francois, comme en Grec & en Latin. Ibid, id, 1573. 5 works in 2 volumes in-8, marbled calf, arms in the center of the boards, smooth spines decorated in the grotesque style, red edges ( 18th century binding). Olivier, 1719-1 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, IV-89a-90b et seq., 92-93. I. 173 f.-(3 f.) / A-Y8 (the last blank) /// II. 80 f. / A-K8 // 36 f. / A-D8, E4 (the last blank) // 32 f. / A-D8 (the last blank) // 22 f.-(2 f.) / A-C8 (the last blank). Reunion of works by brothers Jean and Jacques de La Taille. Second edition of La Famine and first edition of Saul le Furieux by Jean de La Taille. All three works by Jacques de La Taille are in first edition. In a long note added to Tchemerzine's notes on these editions, Lucien Scheler points out that, while they can be found separately, it is desirable to see these different works reunited as the publisher had intended. Indeed, on the back of the title of "La Famine La Famine", details (...) of what can be considered an attempt at a collective edition of the two brothers' works (Scheler). This collection brings together four plays by Jean de La Taille, La Famine, Les Corrivaus, Le Negromant and Saul Le furieux, as well as pieces of poetry, hymns, elegies, epitaphs, etc., a Remontrance pour le Roy, and two tragedies by his brother Jacques, Daire and Alexandre, to whom we also owe a Manière de faire les vers. All these works, except the last, are in verse. Woodcut portrait of Jean de La Taille at the end of the first volume and large woodcut medallion with his motto, repeated several times. Copy with the coat of arms of Louis-César de La Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, peer de France, governor of Bourbonnais, grand falconer of France. Binding rubbed with two early splits, one corner previously restored. An angular wetness affecting the last third of the second volume. Provenance: Duc de La Vallière (arms, I, December 1783, no. 2976), Baron Sosthène de La Roche Lacarelle (bookplate, April 30-May 5, 1888, no. 294) and Docteur Lucien-Graux (bookplate). 2 old markings in ink and old stamp of the Bibliothèque Mazarine on all titles and on the penultimate leaf of the second volume.