Pierre de RONSARD.
Les Quatre premiers livres... Lot 119
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Pierre de RONSARD.
Les Quatre premiers livres des Odes... Ensemble son Bocage...
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Pierre de RONSARD. L'Hymne de France.
Paris, Michel Vascosan, 1549. 2 works in one volume in-8, brown basane, gilt arms in the center of the boards, spine with 5 ornate nerves (
Late 17th century binding).
Barbier, MBP, II-2, 3, 4, 5 // De Backer, 389 bis // Olivier, 2350 // Rothschild, 669-671 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, V-415/416.
I. (10 f.)-170 f.-(2 f.) / A8, *2, a-x8, y4 ( with y3 signed z3) //
II (8 f.) / A8 / 98 x 159 mm.
First editions of these two very rare works, which are among Ronsard's earliest published works.
There is a debate between several bibliographers about different editions of the
Four first books of the Odes. Barbier-Mueller's summary of the debate is very skilfully commented in
Ma bibliothèque poétique (II-n° 5). Without going into the details of this polemic, we shall follow his opinion that there are several states of this edition, and indicate the composition of our copy. This one:
- contains the
Suravertissement followed by the
Privilege;
- contains misprint on verso of folio 136,
Boucage for
Bocage;
- contains error on folio 155, erroneously numbered
557;
- contains the two errata leaves at the end of the volume.
L'Hymne de France is sometimes considered Ronsard's first publication (cf. Picot in the Rothschild catalog), sometimes his second after
L'Épithalame d'Antoine de Bourbon (cf. Tchemerzine).
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Sometimes, as here, we find the
Quatre premiers livres... and
L'Hymne bound together; the reason for this is that the
Quatres premiers livres contain in fine, as we said, two errata leaves which are often missing and which are present here. Curiously, these two errata pages concern both books, even though they were published by two different publishers. This peculiarity has led some bibliographers, such as Seymour de Ricci, to believe that the first collection and the booklet must have been sold together, and that a copy of the
Quatre premiers livres... not containing
L'Hymne would be incomplete.
We agree with Barbier-Mueller's thesis that, due to a typographical correction to the word
Hymne to
Hinne and because of an error in the name
Ronsard spelled with a
T, considered these two publications to be two separate editions.
A copy bearing the arms of
François Chartraire de Montigny, a member of the Burgundy Parliament in 1692, who died in 1728, leaving behind a substantial library.
The copy contains a few old handwritten annotations and a few underlined passages.
Binding a little rubbed, title page rebacked. Title of
Odes stained and restored, a few brown spots, probably due to faded ink.
Provenance: J.B. Clergéon (? handwritten bookplate dated 1633), François Chartraire de Montigny (arms) and Mme Gueneau de Mussy (bookplate).
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