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EXPILLY, Claude - Les Poemes de Messire Claude Expilly.
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259
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EXPILLY, Claude - Les Poemes de Messire Claude Expilly.
See original version (French)
Estimate €400
Voluntary lot
Description
EXPILLY, Claude - Les Poemes de Messire Claude Expilly. Grenoble, Imprimerie de Pierre Verdier, 1624. In-4, (4) ff, 461 (5) pp, pages 395 to 398 are duplicates with variants, qqs. yellowed quires or ff. with yellowing, qqs. russ;, garnet chagrin pl., gilt thread on boards with fleuron at corners, spine ribbed and decorated.
DE BACKER n°598. BARBIER-MUELLER 4th part, II, n°36. Ex. which appears to be on large paper (strong and wide margins). Second edition, largely original (prem. in 1596). It contains 61 new pieces and many of those reprinted have been modified. It is now divided into three parts. The first is still dedicated to Gabrielle d'Estrée, as is the second to Constable de Lesdiguière, but the third, which is largely original, is dedicated to Cardinal de Richelieu. Contains (pp. 370-418) a ''Supplemant à l'Histoire du Chevalier Bayard. Claude Expilly (Voiron 1561 - Grenoble 1636) held many positions in the judiciary, diplomacy and as a statesman. He was Attorney General of the Sovereign Council in Chambéry (1600), State Councillor (1612) and President of the Grenoble Parliament (1616). His poetry consists mainly of love verses, including several dedicated to Gabrielle d'Estrée, elegies, odes, prayers and various epitaphs. The fluidity of his verses has been admired, despite a tendency towards mannerism at times. Ex-libris ms. on the title of Gaspard Froment professor of civil law at the Faculty of Valence in Dauphiné between 1610 and 1645: ''Ex Biblioth. Gasp. Fromentii Valent. 1624. dono Authoris.'' Ex-libris Charles Jaillet with a one-page note in his hand at the end of the book.
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