DESPORTES, Philippe Lot n° 18

Les Premières oevvres. Reveuës, corrigees & augmentees outre les precedentes impressions Rouen, Raphaël du Petit Val, 1594 BEAUTIFUL GILDED DELIVERY IN GILDED DELIVERY AND GILDED SLAVES [followed by:] Pseaumes de David mis en vers françois. Rouen, Raphaël du Petit Val, 1594. [Bound at the end:] Prières et autres Oevvres chrestiennes. Rouen, Raphaël du Petit Val, 1594. [Bound at the end:] Quelques prieres et méditations chrestiennes. Rouen, Raphaël du Petit Val, 1594 4 works in one in-12 volume (148 x 87mm). Rose-edged copy. Letterpress mark on title pages. COLLATION: (1): 6 ff. n.o., 661 pp., 10 ff. n.o. (p. 551, 605, 654 miscalculated 555, 665, 456); (2): 167 pp. and 4 ff.n.o.; (3): 35 pp.; (4): 37 pp. CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Ivory vellum, gilt decoration, wreath of foliage at center of boards, double framing of fillets, smooth spine decorated and gilt, gilt edges. Marginal paper loss on p. 337, a few leaves in the center of the volume with small marginal wetness, some spotting and browning. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Brunet, II, 647 -- Tchemerzine-Scheler, II, pp. 888, 893 and 894 -- Jean Paul Barbier, Ma bibliothèque poétique, IV. II, pp. 78-84