[Sixteenth-century book]. RONSARD (Pierre de). Discours des - Lot 153

[Sixteenth-century book]. RONSARD (Pierre de). Discours des misères de ce temps. [Followed by]: Les épitaphes de divers suiets A Paris, chez la Vve G. Buon, 1597. Two volumes in one in-12, 127-325 p., [1] f. (table), 10-[1] f., green morocco, 5-ribbed spine, gilt author, title, place and date, finely ornamented caissons, triple gilt fillet bordering the covers, double fillet at the edges, interior lace, gilt edges on witnesses [Thibaron-Echaubard] (spine and edge of upper cover a little sunned). Reunion of volumes 9 and 10 of this important collective edition of Ronsard's works. It reproduces the edition published by the same publisher in 1587, with the addition of "Abrégé de l'art poétique françois" (10-[1] f. at the end of the volume). Wood-engraved portrait of Ronsard on the v° of the title, wood-engraved bandeaux and culs-de-lampe. A wide-margined (h = 147 mm.), well-bound copy.