DEMANDS DAMOURS With ioyeous Responses. Small... Lot 40

DEMANDS DAMOURS With ioyeous Responses. Small booklet in-8, midnight-blue morocco, triple fillet, 5-rib spine decorated in the grotesque style, interior lace, gilt edges ( Bauzonnet-Trautz). Barbier, I-874 // Not in Baudrier // Bechtel, 219/D-151 // Brunet, Supplément I-359 // Fairfax Murray, 118 // Gultlingen, VI-121 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-309c // USTC, 38715. (12f.) / A8, B4 / 22 long lines, gothic car / 82 x 134 mm. Very rare booklet devoted to courtly love. This work, of which there were numerous editions as early as 1490, is the written version of a courtly aristocratic game called "jeu du roy qui ne meurt". It consists of prose questions and answers exchanged between the Lover and the Lady: I ask you. Qui est lennemy mortel qui le chastel peult grever. Response. Eslongner. The text has long been wrongly attributed to Alain Chartier. None of Bechtel's editions are dated. The present edition features the title in Roman script and the sequel in Gothic script, and is illustrated with a fine woodcut on the title depicting a man holding a flower facing a group of young women. It was issued by the printer and bookseller Jacques Moderne, also known as (Le) Grand Jacques, established in Lyon before 1523 and specialized in music publishing, a printer and bookseller who escaped Baudrier. This booklet is very rare. Our copy is cited by Brunet, is said to be the only one known according to Fairfax Murray, and all bibliographies refer only to it. It is also the only one cited by the USTC. A fine copy, fully ruled in red ink. The upper margin has been redone throughout the entire volume, while the lower margin is untouched and fully witnessed. Provenance: Fairfax Murray (unlabelled, no. 118) and most probably Adolphe Audenet (1839 catalog, no. 508, described as bound in blue morocco with a large number of witnesses at the bottom of the margins, very short at the top).