RONSARD, PIERRE DE. Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys. Ensemble Le cinquiesme de ses Odes. Paris: la veuve Maurice de la Porte, 30 September 1552. 8vo, 164 x 103 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/16 in.), crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt-tooled wreath at center of covers, spine in six compartments, two gilt-lettered, a single small floral tool gilt in the others, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges marbled and gilt, by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, one or two almost imperceptible small marginal repairs, small stain to g4r obscuring a letter, washed and pressed . FIRST EDITION. Collation: a-p8; A-D8. Contents: a1r title, a1v-a2r woodcut portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre, with Greek verses by Jean-Antoine de Baïf, a2v Voeu (dedication sonnet), a3r-g3r Les amours , g3v-g4r sonnets by Joachim Du Bellay, Jean-Antoine de Baïf and Nicolas Denisot (under his anagram "Le Conte d'Alsinois"), g4r-o3v Le cinquiesme livre des odes , o3v-p6v Les bacchanales , p7r Sonet à son livre (followed by six lines Greek verse), p7v errata, p8r Extrait du privilège, dated 6 Septembre 1552, p8v blank; A1r Avertissement au lecteur par A. D[e]. L[a]. P[orte]. (18 lines), A1v-D6r musical scores for four voices by Pierre Certon, Claude Goudimel, Marc Antoine Muret and Clément Janequin, D6v-D7v table of sonnets that can be sung with each melody, D8r colophon, D8v blank. 152 leaves. Italic and Greek letter, printer's device on title, oval woodcut portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre, woodcut musical notation, woodcut headpieces and initials. First issue of the "Avertissement" to the "airs notés"; p. 59 (d6r) with a pasted down printed slip correcting the first word in the fourth line. RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT. A FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING RARITIES OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Les Amours , probably the most famous collection of love poems in the French language, democratically written in honor of four different women, was Ronsard's second published collection of poems, following books 1-4 of the Odes , printed in 1550. This first edition contains forty sonnets (four more were published in the second edition of 1553), as well as the first printing of Book Five of the Odes . The text is followed by ten musical accompaniments by four of the foremost song composers of the period that could each be adapted to a number of different sonnets, reprinted in the 1553 edition only. (Marc Antoine Muret was himself a poet and well-known classicist, and the author of a series of commentaries on Les Amours , in which he explained its mythological allusions). The portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre were reprinted in later editions. Tchemerzine and Scheler list six copies, including the present; to our knowledge two other copies have been sold at auction since the Rahir sale: the Nodier--Comte de Lurde--Hoe copy, sold at the Cortlandt Bishop sale in New York in 1938, and a copy sold in Paris on 29 April 1974. There are no copies in any American libraries, nor, more surprisingly, in any Parisian ones. Seymour de Ricci, Catalogue d'une Collection Unique des éditions originales de Ronsard (London 1927), 5; P. Laumonier, Tableau chronologique des oeuvres de Ronsard (Paris 1911), pp. 5-11; RISM Recueils imprimés, XVIe-XVIIe s. , 1552/6 (citing only the Bibliothèque d'Orléans and BM copies); Tchemerzine V, 418. Provenance : Édouard Rahir, bookplate (sale, Paris, 21 May 1937, lot 1576).
RONSARD, PIERRE DE. Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys. Ensemble Le cinquiesme de ses Odes. Paris: la veuve Maurice de la Porte, 30 September 1552. 8vo, 164 x 103 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/16 in.), crimson crushed levant morocco, gilt-tooled wreath at center of covers, spine in six compartments, two gilt-lettered, a single small floral tool gilt in the others, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges marbled and gilt, by TRAUTZ-BAUZONNET, one or two almost imperceptible small marginal repairs, small stain to g4r obscuring a letter, washed and pressed . FIRST EDITION. Collation: a-p8; A-D8. Contents: a1r title, a1v-a2r woodcut portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre, with Greek verses by Jean-Antoine de Baïf, a2v Voeu (dedication sonnet), a3r-g3r Les amours , g3v-g4r sonnets by Joachim Du Bellay, Jean-Antoine de Baïf and Nicolas Denisot (under his anagram "Le Conte d'Alsinois"), g4r-o3v Le cinquiesme livre des odes , o3v-p6v Les bacchanales , p7r Sonet à son livre (followed by six lines Greek verse), p7v errata, p8r Extrait du privilège, dated 6 Septembre 1552, p8v blank; A1r Avertissement au lecteur par A. D[e]. L[a]. P[orte]. (18 lines), A1v-D6r musical scores for four voices by Pierre Certon, Claude Goudimel, Marc Antoine Muret and Clément Janequin, D6v-D7v table of sonnets that can be sung with each melody, D8r colophon, D8v blank. 152 leaves. Italic and Greek letter, printer's device on title, oval woodcut portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre, woodcut musical notation, woodcut headpieces and initials. First issue of the "Avertissement" to the "airs notés"; p. 59 (d6r) with a pasted down printed slip correcting the first word in the fourth line. RULED IN RED THROUGHOUT. A FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE OUTSTANDING RARITIES OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Les Amours , probably the most famous collection of love poems in the French language, democratically written in honor of four different women, was Ronsard's second published collection of poems, following books 1-4 of the Odes , printed in 1550. This first edition contains forty sonnets (four more were published in the second edition of 1553), as well as the first printing of Book Five of the Odes . The text is followed by ten musical accompaniments by four of the foremost song composers of the period that could each be adapted to a number of different sonnets, reprinted in the 1553 edition only. (Marc Antoine Muret was himself a poet and well-known classicist, and the author of a series of commentaries on Les Amours , in which he explained its mythological allusions). The portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre were reprinted in later editions. Tchemerzine and Scheler list six copies, including the present; to our knowledge two other copies have been sold at auction since the Rahir sale: the Nodier--Comte de Lurde--Hoe copy, sold at the Cortlandt Bishop sale in New York in 1938, and a copy sold in Paris on 29 April 1974. There are no copies in any American libraries, nor, more surprisingly, in any Parisian ones. Seymour de Ricci, Catalogue d'une Collection Unique des éditions originales de Ronsard (London 1927), 5; P. Laumonier, Tableau chronologique des oeuvres de Ronsard (Paris 1911), pp. 5-11; RISM Recueils imprimés, XVIe-XVIIe s. , 1552/6 (citing only the Bibliothèque d'Orléans and BM copies); Tchemerzine V, 418. Provenance : Édouard Rahir, bookplate (sale, Paris, 21 May 1937, lot 1576).
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