AYRAIL (Pierre).

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AYRAIL (Pierre).
Ɵ L'Esté. Paris, Claude Morel, 1607. Booklet in-8, midnight blue morocco, gilt emblem on first board, gilt title on spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Joly). First edition, of great rarity, of this work of 108 moral quatrains dedicated to Christophle de L'Estang, bishop of Carcassonne and adviser to the King. On the verso of the last introductory leaf is a very beautiful portrait of the author, finely engraved in intaglio by Thomas de Leu, which can be classified among the masterpieces of the genre. Copy of Frédéric Lachèvre, bibliographer and specialist of French poetry, with his emblem stamped on the first plate. Old erased inscription in the margin of the last leaf. Skillful restoration of paper in the margin of folio F1. Cat. Berès, Des Valois à Henri IV, n°13. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°20.
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