DU BELLAY, JOACHIM. Les Regrets et autres Oeuvres Poetiques. Paris: Fédéric Morel 1558; [with:] Oeuvres. Paris: Charles L'Angelier 1561. 2 vols. in 3, 4to, average size: 232 x 157 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 3/16 in.), nineteenth-century dark purple morocco, covers with two triple gilt-ruled borders, arms of Queen Marie de Medicis gilt at center, her crowned monogram and crowned fleur-de-lys at inner and outer corners of inner panel, spines gilt in six compartments, g.e., some very slight scuffing to joints and extremities, upper inner hinges cracked, small repair to last leaf of the Oeuvres catching 3 letters, a very few insignificant marginal repairs, imprint dates of the Oeuvres altered in ink to read 1564, washed and pressed. Italic type, printers' devices on titles, woodcut floriated and grotesque headpieces and initials, the Oeuvres in four parts (the Deffense et Illustration de la Langue Françoise; L'Olive augmentée; L'Antérotique de la vieille et jeune amy with Quelques vers lyriques; and the Recueil de Poésie presenté à...Princesse Ma Dame Marguerite), separately paginated, the first and last two with separate titles, L'Angelier's large woodcut device on verso of final leaves of parts 1 and 2, small woodcut of an author writing, repeated six times. FIRST EDITION OF DU BELLAY'S MASTERPIECE, UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF ANY OF HIS SEPARATELY PUBLISHED WORKS. Tchemerzine 52a and 74; Oeuvres: Adams D-979 (with part 2 dated 1562), BM/STC French, p. 141. A fine set of two VERY RARE editions of one of the greatest poets of the French Renaissance. Provenance: (from Lardanchet, 1937). (3)

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DU BELLAY, JOACHIM. Les Regrets et autres Oeuvres Poetiques. Paris: Fédéric Morel 1558; [with:] Oeuvres. Paris: Charles L'Angelier 1561. 2 vols. in 3, 4to, average size: 232 x 157 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 3/16 in.), nineteenth-century dark purple morocco, covers with two triple gilt-ruled borders, arms of Queen Marie de Medicis gilt at center, her crowned monogram and crowned fleur-de-lys at inner and outer corners of inner panel, spines gilt in six compartments, g.e., some very slight scuffing to joints and extremities, upper inner hinges cracked, small repair to last leaf of the Oeuvres catching 3 letters, a very few insignificant marginal repairs, imprint dates of the Oeuvres altered in ink to read 1564, washed and pressed. Italic type, printers' devices on titles, woodcut floriated and grotesque headpieces and initials, the Oeuvres in four parts (the Deffense et Illustration de la Langue Françoise; L'Olive augmentée; L'Antérotique de la vieille et jeune amy with Quelques vers lyriques; and the Recueil de Poésie presenté à...Princesse Ma Dame Marguerite), separately paginated, the first and last two with separate titles, L'Angelier's large woodcut device on verso of final leaves of parts 1 and 2, small woodcut of an author writing, repeated six times.

FIRST EDITION OF DU BELLAY'S MASTERPIECE, UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF ANY OF HIS SEPARATELY PUBLISHED WORKS. Tchemerzine 52a and 74; Oeuvres: Adams D-979 (with part 2 dated 1562), BM/STC French, p. 141. A fine set of two VERY RARE editions of one of the greatest poets of the French Renaissance.

Provenance: (from Lardanchet, 1937). (3)