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LORRIS, Guillaume de and Jean de MeungBiblio.com

Le Roman de la rose par Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meung dit Clopinel. Édition faite sur celle de Lenglet Dufresnoy corigée avec soin et enrichie de la dissertation sur les auteurs de L'ouvrage.

1799réf. 000119Paris: J.B. Fournier P.N.F. Didot 1799. Hardcover. See Description. Tall 8vo. 5 vols. This copy dated "an septieme 1799." Vol. I. pp. 435 1 blank Vol. II. pp. 410 2 blank Vol. III. pp. 4 365 2 blank Vol. IV. pp. 4 352 Vol. V. pp. 6 352. Volumes I-III contain frontispiece engravings. Volume I contains an additional engraving opposite p. 74. Bound in period straight grained morocco binding blind stamped and gilt. All edges gilt. Corners a bit bumped; minor wear to extremities; tiny chip to head cap of vol. I. Initial and final blank leaves foxed. The interiors are generally clean with only mild scattered foxing a bit heavier in volume I. Small inscription on verso of fly-leaf in first volume. This edition is based on Lenglet Dufresnoys 1735 edition. The "Roman de la Rose" was one of the most important Medieval French poems. The work is divided into two sections. The first written by Guillaume de Lorris in the early to mid 13th century is an allegorical dream addressing the Art of Love. The second written in the late 13th or early 14th century by Jean de Meung continues the poem in a different vein turning the work into a satire and a commentary on contemporary society. The poem contains long digressions in which an encyclopedic mass of information on various topics is set forth including "satires on women attacks on the magistrates the hereditary nobility and the mendicant friars disquisitions on the origin of society and of royal power on property pauperism and marriage on the relations of nature and art on hallucinations and sorcery and on the physical sciences." Oxford Comp. to French Lit p. 630. Over time great interest has been attached to the allegorical meaning of the poem which is open to diverse interpretations. The work contains much alchemical symbolism. Also included are "Le Codicille de Maistre Jean de Meung" and " Le Testament de Maistre Jean de Meung" as well as several related alchemy tracts "Le Remontrances de nature a lalchymiste errant par Jean de Meung"; "Le Response de lalchymiste a nature"; "Testament attribute a Arnauld de Villeneufve"; "Petit traicte dalchymie intitule le sommaire philosophique de Nicolas Flamel"; "La Fontaine des Amoureux de science"; "Balade du secret des philosophes". Vol. V includes Lantin de Damereys "Supplement au glossaire" first printed in 1737. This is a heavy set. Please inquire about postage. Brunet 1175; Graesse IV pp. 262-3 both listing a 1798 printing. J.B. Fournier, P.N.F. Didot hardcover

Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books · États-Unis1 100,00 $US≈ 982,76 €

WALTON IzaakBiblio.com

'Walton's Lives'. The Lives of Dr. John Donne Sir Henry Wotton Mr. Richard Hooker Mr. George Herbert and Dr. Robert Sanderson. First Major edition. UNIQUE AND OUTSTANDING ETON ASSOCIATION COPY IN SIGNED PICKERING BINDING

1825réf. 17451John Major Fleet-Street 1825. 8vo. First Major Edition with a copper-engraved portrait frontispiece engraved and printed titles 9 copper-engraved plates and 52 woodcut illustrations and embellishments in the text one or two plates very faintly foxed with some resultant faint offsetting to facing leaves; most handsomely bound in late nineteenth century navy blue crushed full morocco sides with triple frame border in gilt back with five raised bands ruled in gilt second compartment framed blocked and lettered in gilt all other compartments elaborately framed and tooled in gilt to a geometric floral design all edges gilt elaborate gilt doublures marbled endpapers a splendid crisp clean copy in superb signed period binding. With the engraved gilt trade ticket of Pickering on front paste-down and the binder's stamp 'BM Pickering' on front free endpaper verso. The first Major edition of Walton's great biographical collection issued as a complement to the same publisher's 1823 edition of The Compleat Angler. Walton lived in the parish of St. Dunstan's where Donne was vicar; his life of his friend was written in 1640 as an introduction to a collection of the poet-clergyman's sermons. The other subjects were also personal friends; their biographies were first published in 1651 Wotton 1665 Hooker 1670 Herbert and 1678 Sanderson. In this copy the portrait of Henry Wotton called for at p.87 is placed as frontispiece to the volume as a whole; the portrait of Hooker called for at p.161 is placed at p.166; the plate 'The Advocate' called for at p.377 is engraved as 'The Pleader' and placed at p.378. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM EDWARD COMPTON AUSTEN LEIGH TO LORD FRANCIS HERVEY WITH THE FORMER'S NEAT HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED 1865 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Austen Leigh was Master at Eton while Hervey was a pupil. A UNIQUE AND QUITE OUTSTANDING ETON ASSOCIATION COPY OF A WORK RATED BY JOHNSON AS 'AMONG HIS MOST FAVOURITE BOOKS'. John Major, Fleet-Street, hardcover

Island Books · Royaume-Uni900,00 £GB≈ 1 074,91 €