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Pierre de RONSARD

Les Oeuvres

Chez Nicolas Buon, à Paris 1623, in-folio (24,5x36,5cm), (18) 876pp. et (2) 875-1728p. (12), 2 volumes reliés.

Fourteenth collected edition. “This edition, the nicest and most complete of the old editions of Ronsard, is richly illustrated with copper engravings,” (Seymour de Ricci, Éditions originales de Ronsard). Superb engraved title by Léonard Gaultier, the same as used for the collected edition of 1609, here in its second state. A small woodcut portrait of Muret in a medallion, half-page portrait of Richelieu, half-page portraits of Ronsard and Cassandre by Melland, half-page medallion portraits of Henri II, Charles IX, François Duc d'Anjou, Henri Duc de Guise, Anne de Joyeuse, Mary Stuart, the Duc d'Espernon, François II and Catherine de Medici, all engraved by Thomas de Leu. One figure on title of second volume by Léonard Gaultier.
Text in italic (except the commentaries). Each work with its own half-title. Spine in compartments with six fleurons, gilt title, double fillet frame to covers. Leather cracked in title compartment and one other, adjacent, headpieces, joints and corners finely (almost invisibly) restored. About forty leaves of first volume browned. Volume two: title and about 30 other leaves browned, traces of light dampstaining and foxing to initial leaves. The final leaf of first volume bound at beginning of second (half title of the elegies), leaves 1515, 1517 and 1519 with right corner folded back.
The best old collected edition of the author's works and without question the most attractive. Ronsard's poetry was in limbo for a long time before his rediscovery and celebration by the Romantics. Ronsard was pilloried in the 17^th century by the leading Classicist, Malherbe, and the 18^th century was not kind to him either. France had to wait for Prosper Blanchemain's 1857-1867 edition to get to know “the Prince of Poets.”

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