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MAROT, CLÉMENT. Les Oeuvres. Lyons: à l'enseigne du Rocher [Antoine Constantin] 1545. 8vo, 164 x 108 mm. (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.), red morocco gilt, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by PETIT, extremities scuffed, small restorations to fols. d5, A1, G6 and H1-3 catching a few letters, supplied in facsimile, a few marginal repairs, slight uniform discoloration, washed and pressed. 2 parts in one, roman type, printer's woodcut device on title and on verso of last leaf of part 1, woodcut ornamental initials. Rothschild, I, 609; Tchemerzine IV, 496.
Definitive edition of Marot's works, second issue, with title date changed from 1544. This last edition published in Marot's lifetime (he died in 1544, making this issue posthimous) was the first to be arranged by genre and the first to contain the complete text of Marot's translations of fifty of the Psalms, which, with Theodore de Bèze's translation of the remaining Psalms, became the Huguenot Psalter. 35 of the poems were previously unpublished.
Provenance: Tobie-Gustave Herpin, bookplate (sale, 27-29 May 1903, lot ?37).
Definitive edition of Marot's works, second issue, with title date changed from 1544. This last edition published in Marot's lifetime (he died in 1544, making this issue posthimous) was the first to be arranged by genre and the first to contain the complete text of Marot's translations of fifty of the Psalms, which, with Theodore de Bèze's translation of the remaining Psalms, became the Huguenot Psalter. 35 of the poems were previously unpublished.
Provenance: Tobie-Gustave Herpin, bookplate (sale, 27-29 May 1903, lot ?37).