DÉLICES (LES) DE LA POËSIE GALANTE - The Delights of Gallant - Lot 114

DÉLICES (LES) DE LA POËSIE GALANTE - The Delights of Gallant Poetry, By the Most Famous Authors of Our Time . Paris, Jean Ribou, 1666-1667. 3 parts in one vol. in-12, (10) ff. including frontispiece, 254 pp; (4) ff. including frontispiece, 136 pp; (4) ff. 88 pp, paper a little yellowed, a few russets, half ivory vellum, smooth spine decorated and titled by hand. GAY I, 842. LACHÈVRE III, 57, 58 and 59. First edition of Part 3. ''This collection, which was really quite well done, was intended above all for the real Prétieuses, that is, the witty women of the time. (...) There are pieces in it that smell a little of the licentiousness of the satyric Parnassus, allusions to the misadventures of a Marquis de Langey...'' (Gay). It includes the following pieces: Volume I: a play by Boileau: stances Sur l'Escole des Femmes (pp. 95-96), of which a stanza deemed too badinage was cut from his works - a play by Corneille: Remerciment au roy (pp. 36-39) - a play by Molière: Stances galantes (p. 201) - a play by La Fontaine - Volume II: a play by Ch. Perrault. Bookplate of Frédéric Lachèvre.