Ruelle Thomas (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New.

Hardcover (Full Leather). Condition: Very Good Condition. Early Edition. Three rare Rouen imprints from 1608 bound as one (as printed) with separate title pages, in modern full red morocco with inner dentelles, raised bands,marbled endpapers - old bookseller or binder stamp on front endpaper. Very slight fading, otherwise a fine binding. Light browning, trimmed a little close in spots almost touching the titles and running titles, small paper repair in the margin of the final page of Paradis, otherwise clean internally. 60, 20, 10 leaves. Just a few copies in OCLC - 3 of the 1606 with only Paradis, 2 of this one with all three poems, and one copy of a 1610 edition with only Paradis. Three anonymous love poems, the most successful and longest of which is Le Paradis D'Amour which describes a shepherd, struck by Cupid, who falls for a girl who is too young, a nymph who he rejects, and then that same Nymph who has been reincarnated by Circe but who then rebuffs him. Like Froissart's famous medieval poem by the same name, the poem is largely centered around a dream. Provenance: A. Van Loock (stamp on endpaper) Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Erotica. Inventory No: 045526.