RONSARD, Pierre de

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RONSARD, Pierre de
Les Amours [...] newly augme[n]tées par lui, & commentées par Marc Antoine de Muret. Plus some Odes of the author, not yet printed. In Paris, Chez la veuve Maurice de la Porte, 1553. In-8 (151 x 102 mm) of [8] ff., 282 pp. (with pagination errors), [1] f (errata and completion of printing), long-grained caramel morocco, gilt fillet framing the boards with cold spandrels, ornate ribbed spine, guilloche edges, threaded headpieces, gilt inner lace, gilt edges (Huser). SECOND EDITION of the Amours, partly original, printed eight months after the extremely rare first edition published on September 30, 1552, by the same publisher. It contains the first publication of the famous ode to Cassandra, "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose", 44 new pieces (39 sonnets, 1 song and 4 odes) and Muret's commentary, also unpublished, "which put at once the 29 years old poet in the rank of the classical authors, since his work deserved to be abundantly explained to the uninformed readers, that so many novelties and so learned mythological allusions would have been able to baffle" (Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller). It is illustrated with 3 portraits on wood representing Ronsard, Cassandra Salviati, and the humanist Marc-Antoine Muret, who established the text and wrote the comments. The bookseller Pierre Berès commenting on these woodcuts will say : "It is the first time that a poet placed at the head of his book, instead of his own, the effigy of his mistress." Copy of which the faults indicated in the errata are not corrected, sign of the first state of the text, completed of printing on May 24, 1553 (in the second state, the faults indicated in the errata leaf, which remains at the end of the volume, are corrected by means of reprinted leaves). On the other hand, the preliminary leaf [8] does not have the typo "cover" for "heart" on the back, and the misprint of Muret's commentary on page 3 was corrected during printing, indicating the second state for these passages. "This second edition of the Amours is precious, not only for the unpublished sonnets and pieces it contains, but because among these pieces are two famous Works: the Voyage aux Iles Fortunées, and especially the Ode to Cassandre "Mignonne, allons voir si la rose...". (Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller). Charming copy, entirely rubricated in sepia ink, with the title regulated, perfectly established by Huser. Slight marginal restorations. Tchemerzine-Scheler, V, p. 421. Barbier-Mueller, Ma bibliothèque poétique, II, n° 10. Ducimetière, Mignonne allons voir, nº 5.
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