BAÏF, JEAN-ANTOINE DE. Oeuvres en Rime 1553; Les Amours, 1572; Les Jeux, 1572, Les Passe Temps, 1573; all Paris: Lucas Breyer. 4 vols., 8vo, 159 x 98 mm. (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.), uniformly bound in nineteenth-century tan calf, covers with gilt roll-tooled borders, smooth spines gilt, red calf lettering-pieces, turn-ins gilt, g.e., slight wear to extremities, occasional light foxing, some dampstaining to a few leaves in 1st and 2nd vols., small wormhole to last quires of Les Amours, small marginal hole to title of Les Passe-tems. First Collected Edition of Baïf's poetical works, consisting of the FIRST EDITIONS of Les Jeux, Les Passe Temps, and the poems included in the volume entitled Oeuvres en Rime (the verso of the title listing the four volumes in the above order), Les Amours containing the first edition of "Diverses Amours", and the second editions of the Amours de Méline and l'Amour de Francine; Les Jeux with the title altered in manuscript to 1573 (as often). Italic type, woodcut headpieces and initials. Brunet I, 611-12; Rothschild 684; Tchemerzine 264-279.Provenance: Henry Drury, Harrow, neat ownership inscription on front flyleaves of two vols. (4)

BAÏF, JEAN-ANTOINE DE. Oeuvres en Rime 1553; Les Amours, 1572; Les Jeux, 1572, Les Passe Temps, 1573; all Paris: Lucas Breyer. 4 vols., 8vo, 159 x 98 mm. (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.), uniformly bound in nineteenth-century tan calf, covers with gilt roll-tooled borders, smooth spines gilt, red calf lettering-pieces, turn-ins gilt, g.e., slight wear to extremities, occasional light foxing, some dampstaining to a few leaves in 1st and 2nd vols., small wormhole to last quires of Les Amours, small marginal hole to title of Les Passe-tems. First Collected Edition of Baïf's poetical works, consisting of the FIRST EDITIONS of Les Jeux, Les Passe Temps, and the poems included in the volume entitled Oeuvres en Rime (the verso of the title listing the four volumes in the above order), Les Amours containing the first edition of "Diverses Amours", and the second editions of the Amours de Méline and l'Amour de Francine; Les Jeux with the title altered in manuscript to 1573 (as often). Italic type, woodcut headpieces and initials. Brunet I, 611-12; Rothschild 684; Tchemerzine 264-279. Provenance: Henry Drury, Harrow, neat ownership inscription on front flyleaves of two vols. (4)

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BAÏF, JEAN-ANTOINE DE. Oeuvres en Rime 1553; Les Amours, 1572; Les Jeux, 1572, Les Passe Temps, 1573; all Paris: Lucas Breyer. 4 vols., 8vo, 159 x 98 mm. (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.), uniformly bound in nineteenth-century tan calf, covers with gilt roll-tooled borders, smooth spines gilt, red calf lettering-pieces, turn-ins gilt, g.e., slight wear to extremities, occasional light foxing, some dampstaining to a few leaves in 1st and 2nd vols., small wormhole to last quires of Les Amours, small marginal hole to title of Les Passe-tems. First Collected Edition of Baïf's poetical works, consisting of the FIRST EDITIONS of Les Jeux, Les Passe Temps, and the poems included in the volume entitled Oeuvres en Rime (the verso of the title listing the four volumes in the above order), Les Amours containing the first edition of "Diverses Amours", and the second editions of the Amours de Méline and l'Amour de Francine; Les Jeux with the title altered in manuscript to 1573 (as often). Italic type, woodcut headpieces and initials. Brunet I, 611-12; Rothschild 684; Tchemerzine 264-279.

Provenance: Henry Drury, Harrow, neat ownership inscription on front flyleaves of two vols. (4)