[BENSERADE, Isaac de]. - Lot 78

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[BENSERADE, Isaac de]. - Lot 78
[BENSERADE, Isaac de]. Metamorphoses d'Ovide en Rondeaux. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1676. In-4, (7) ff, 463 pp, (4) ff, figures. 19th-century speckled fawn calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, fawn title and date-pieces, coffers decorated with small gilt irons and fillets, triple gilt fillet framing the covers with angular fleurons, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges (nerves, edges and corners rubbed, jaw very slightly split). First edition of Isaac de Benserade's poems based on Ovid's Metamorphoses in French rondeaux. Beautifully illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Sébastien Leclerc after a design by Charles Le Brun, and numerous copper-engraved vignettes in the text in black by Chauveau, Leclerc and Le Pautre. Dedicated to the dauphin, Louis de France, it was very costly for its time, and is said to have been the result of the Sun King's fleeting passion for Madame de Ludre, chanoinesse de Poussay and friend of the author (there are 1 dedicated rondeaux and evocative acrostics in the text). An unsigned drawing of the engraving on page 18, pasted opposite the frontispiece. Provenance: Emmanuel Martin. Tchemerzine, I, 614. Bulletin du bibliophile, 1875, 285.
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