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MARTIAL DE PARIS, dit d'Auvergne (1430-1508). Aresta amorum. Lyon: S. Gryphius, 1533. 4° (220 x 550mm). S3 is a single leaf containing two verses, as Brunet. Roman and italic types. Woodcut printer's device on title, another version on final verso, woodcut historiated and ornamental initials. (Small marginal repair on title, occasional light finger-soiling.) French 18th-century red morocco, gilt fillet border, gilt spine with Gulston crest on red label in fourth compartment, gilt edges (joints lightly rubbed, spine faintly sunned). Provenance: early annotations on final verso and flyleaf -- Joseph Gulston (1745-86; binding) -- Michael Wodhull (1740-1816; purchase and collation note, Dec. 10 1774, 15s) -- Robert Steele, Wandsworth Common (1860-1944; book label) -- Walter Hirst (book label).
FIRST EDITION with the commentary by noted lawyer Benoist de Court of a gently comic work on love. The work purports to report on 51 legal cases presented in the 'Cour d'amor' which set out laws and procedures governing love. Among subjects and situations touched on are cake-bakers, dress, and dance, and the commentary heightens the play of fact and fiction by citing real legal precedent. Brunet III, 1483; Tchemerzine VIII, 122.
FIRST EDITION with the commentary by noted lawyer Benoist de Court of a gently comic work on love. The work purports to report on 51 legal cases presented in the 'Cour d'amor' which set out laws and procedures governing love. Among subjects and situations touched on are cake-bakers, dress, and dance, and the commentary heightens the play of fact and fiction by citing real legal precedent. Brunet III, 1483; Tchemerzine VIII, 122.