GODARD (Jean). - Lot 54

GODARD (Jean). Les Œuvres, divided into two volumes. Plus les Trophées du Roy composez & adioutez depuis l'impression des présentes œuvres. Lyon, [Jean Tholosan pour] Pierre Landry, 1594. 2 volumes in one in-8, marbled calf, ornate spine, red title page, red edges (18th century binding). Baudrier, V, pp. 341-342. - Picot, Rothschild, n°760 - Soleinne, I, n°852. First collective edition, largely original, of Jean Godard's works, containing over 500 pieces. Dedicated to Henri IV, whose woodcut medallion portrait adorns the verso of both title pages, it includes La Flore ou les premières amours, La Lucresse ou les secondes amours, the tragedy La Franciade, the comedy Les Desguisés, the three books of La Fonteine de Gentilly, the other three of La Fonteine de Saint-Font, and the Trophées de Henri IV, a series of 34 sonnets in which the poet sings in a thousand ways of the exploits of the King of Navarre. Apart from Amours de Flore and Trophées, already published, the rest is unpublished. A poet born in Paris in the 1560s and dying around 1630, Jean Godard was a lieutenant in the bailliage of Ribemont in Picardy, then lived in Bordeaux, Clermont in Auvergne, and Villeneuve in Beaujolais. One spine split, covers restored.