Guillaume ALEXIS. Le grant blason de faulces... Lot 3

[Guillaume ALEXIS]. Le grant blason de faulces amours. Plaquette in-8, full margins, red morocco, triple fillet framing with wide spandrels in small irons, spine with 5 nerves very nicely decorated in small irons, inner lace ( Bauzonnet-Trautz). Not in Bechtel (13/A-81 et seq.) // Tchemerzine-Scheler, I-31. (16f.) / a-b8 / 25 lines, gothic car / 148 x 205 mm. The Blason des fausses amours or Grant blason de faulces amours is Guillaume Alexis's best-known work. There are several versions of this poem, both long and short. This is the short version, with 58 stanzas of 12 lines, each based on two rhymes. The poem is preceded by a sheet bearing the title with a grotesque, but this title has been reworked and, in the absence of a comparison, we cannot certify that it was originally like this. Guillaume Alexis, a Benedictine monk from the second half of the 15th century, seems to have been the "good monk" of Lyre Abbey, in the diocese of Évreux, then prior of Bussy (Bucy-le-Roi). Bechtel cites nine editions printed in Gothic type between 1486 and 1534, and indicates that there were thirty-five early editions of this poem before the 18th century. The one we are presenting has escaped him, as it has escaped all bibliographies, except perhaps Tchemerzine, who cites an edition that seems to correspond to it and which he indicates probably came out of the Lyon presses at the end of the 15th century. He obviously hasn't seen it, and cites a copy bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet, possibly ours. The catalog cards of the Benzon and Noilly collections, from which this copy comes, repeat themselves and give this very rare edition, probably published in Lyon around 1497. First leaf in facsimile, marginal repairs to several leaves, including a larger angular one. Provenance: Edmund-Ernst Benzon (April 21-23, 1875, no. 125) and Jules Noilly (bookplate, March 15-20, 1886, no. 189).