BAÏF (Jean-Antoine de). Mimes, teachings and proverbs. Paris, Pour Lucas Breyer,…

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BAÏF (Jean-Antoine de).

Mimes, teachings and proverbs. Paris, Pour Lucas Breyer, 1576. In-12, blue grosgrain morocco, gilt small-iron right-hand lace on covers, smooth spine with long title, thin inner roulette, gilt edges (Thompson). Second edition, partly original: this is the first complete edition of the Mimes, comprising eight pieces (the first, published the same year by Lucas Breyer, contains only five). It features a woodcut portrait of the poet and humanist on the verso of the title. Delightful binding. From the library of the Comte de Lanjuinais. Small split without missing on the edge of folio D5. Paper slightly scorched. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, III, n°62. - Renouard, Breyer, n°26. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°37.

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BAÏF (Jean-Antoine de).

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Jean-Antoine de BAÏF. Mimes, teachings and proverbs... In-12, red morocco, triple fillet, 5-nerved spine decorated in the same style, interior gilt roulette, gilt edges ( Niedrée). Brunet, I-612 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, I-296. (8 f.)-108 f.-(1 f.)-56 f. / ã6, a-i12, 4 (the 4th missing here), A-D12, E8 / 66 x 131 mm. Third edition, partly original. The Mimes, enseignemens et proverbes were first published by Lucas Breyer in 1576, and contained only the first book. In 1581, the same publisher published a second edition with the addition of a second book. It was only with this third edition, published posthumously sixteen years later by Mamert Patisson, that the text of the Mimes was finally completed, with the addition of the third and fourth books in the original. It is illustrated with two woodcut portraits, one of which is often missing, as is the case here (f. 4). The Mimes, Baïf's most remarkable work by Baïf, according to Viollet-Le-Duc, are fables and proverbs forming a rule of conduct for all states of life. According to Jules Le Petit (p.90), they are ingenious and often profound thoughts, with an original turn of phrase, without pedantry... A fine copy bound in the first half of the 19th century, with old underlining in ink and pencil. The two leaves Au lecteur have been bound at the head. Lacks the second portrait of Baïf, absent from most copies. Spine a little faded. Top margin of title redone without affecting text, small hole in text of folio B4, hole restored without affecting folios E7 and E8. Provenance: Gerbinot (? old handwritten bookplate on title), Château de Rosny (label, La Solitude, no. 3309) and Alfred Lindeboom (bookplate). 1000

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