[DEZEIMERIS, Reinhold, ed.] BRACH, Pierre de
Oeuvres poetiques [Ouevres inedites…] de Pierre de Brach, Sieur
de la Motte
Montussan
Paris: Auguste Aubry, 1861-1862.
Two volumes, complete. Octavo (23.5 x 19.0 cm). One of 60 copies on laid
papier de verge, of the total limitation of 260. Half dark brown
morocco and marbled boards by Quinet (stamped ticket), spines elaborately
gilt in six compartments. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, tricolor silk
marker ribbons. Collates vol. I, 400pp.: [4], xxxvi, 356, [4]; vol. II,
381 pp.: [2], cxii, 312, [5]. Minimal traces of wear to bindings, negligible
scattered foxing, else fine.
Printed by Gounouilhou of Bordeaux in Roman, italic and Greek fonts with large woodcut printer's device on title pages and woodcut ornaments, initials, headpieces and tailpieces throughout Two engraved portraits of de Brach in vol. 1, the first in brown ink on laid paper (unsigned) over a verse by Manialdus, and the second by Roques after Thomas de Leu on laid chine. Two unsigned oversize folding woodcuts, Le Palais Tutele de Bourdeaus (the remarkable Pillars of Tutelle) and L'Amphitheatre de Bourdeaus, from Elie Vinet, L'Antiquité de Bourdeaus (1565), in vol. 2.
References: Vicaire I, 919; Brunet supp., 167: "Belle publication." Viollet le Duc (I, 333): "C'était un écrivain correct, un versificateur élégant et harmonieux, bien superieur sous ce rapport à tous les poetes ses contemporains. On peut lui reprocher de manquer de la verve et de l'entrainement de Ronsard, par exemple; mais comme forme de langage, c'est un auteur des plus remarquables et assurement digne d'être étudie."
Provenance: Robert Hoe (with his leather bookplate in each volume) and
Agnes Neustadt (with her engraved bookplate in each volume).
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