Les Œuvres
“Beautiful edition, the most sought after” (Brunet) of the Works of Clément Marot.
A precious copy preserved in its contemporary morocco bearing the arms of Albert de Luynes.
2 volumes in-12 of I/ XVI and 318 pp.; II/ 732 pp., (8) leaves.
Contemporary red morocco, gilt armorials stamped in the center of covers, spine with raised bands decorated with armor pieces, gilt fillet on edges, inner gilt roll, gilt edges over marbling. Contemporary armorial binding.
131 x 71 mm.
Marot, Clément. The Works of Clément Marot de Cahor, Valet de Chambre to the King. Revised & newly augmented.
The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1700 and 1702.
The most valuable 17th-century edition.
Tchemerzine, IV, 506; Brunet, III, 1458.
Copy including one volume from the 1700 edition and one volume from the 1702 reprint.
The copy of Albert de Luynes bound with his coat of arms.
“Attractive sought-after edition” (Guérin, June 20, 1979).
“Attractive edition, the most sought-after […] it is difficult to find copies well preserved with margins and whose leaves show no foxing,” notes Brunet.
In his elegies, epistles, ballads, rondeaux, songs, complaints, epigrams, and psalms, Marot truly brings forth the best of old French poetry and a genuinely popular inspiration beneath the polish of courtly manners.
Official poet adored by Francis I and Charles V, Marot’s talent marks the first truly remarkable era of French poetry, whose spirit reappears in La Fontaine, who did not fail to pay tribute to “Master Clément.”
Precious and beautiful copy preserved in its red morocco binding with the arms of Albert de Luynes.
Louis-Joseph d’Albert de Luynes, prince of Grimberghen and of the Holy Roman Empire, served Emperor Charles VII, who appointed him extraordinary ambassador to the court of France.
Provenance: Louis-Joseph d’Albert de Luynes (1672-1758)
