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DOLET, Etienne (1509-46). Carminum libri quattuor. Lyons: [the author,] 1538.
4° (222 x 158mm). Italic, greek and roman type. Dolet printer’s device on title, historiated initials. (Minor small stains.) Purple morocco gilt by H. Wood, gilt edges. Provenance: (washed and erased inscriptions on title and occasional marginal notes) -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION AND THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY DOLET AT HIS OWN PRESS. Humanist scholar and neo-Latin poet, Dolet worked at the press of Sebastian Gryphius, before obtaining a privilege in 1538 to establish his own press. Poems in here are addressed to the pantheon of French Renaissance literature, including Bembo, De Bellay, Sadolet, Lefèvre d’Etaples, Budé, Marguerite de Navarre, and Gryphius, and Marot and Rabelais, whom he specifically calls friends. Dolet was burned at the stake for heresy at Paris. The last copy in ABPC on-line was the Chatsworth copy in these rooms in 1981. Adams D-758; Brunet II, 796, Longeon, Dolet 30.
4° (222 x 158mm). Italic, greek and roman type. Dolet printer’s device on title, historiated initials. (Minor small stains.) Purple morocco gilt by H. Wood, gilt edges. Provenance: (washed and erased inscriptions on title and occasional marginal notes) -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION AND THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY DOLET AT HIS OWN PRESS. Humanist scholar and neo-Latin poet, Dolet worked at the press of Sebastian Gryphius, before obtaining a privilege in 1538 to establish his own press. Poems in here are addressed to the pantheon of French Renaissance literature, including Bembo, De Bellay, Sadolet, Lefèvre d’Etaples, Budé, Marguerite de Navarre, and Gryphius, and Marot and Rabelais, whom he specifically calls friends. Dolet was burned at the stake for heresy at Paris. The last copy in ABPC on-line was the Chatsworth copy in these rooms in 1981. Adams D-758; Brunet II, 796, Longeon, Dolet 30.
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