Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise, II, pp. 57-59 ; Carter & Vervliet, Civilit\u00e9 Types, n\u00b0 8 ; Balsamo, Les Traductions de l\u2019italien en fran\u00e7ais au XVIe si\u00e8cle, 2009, p. 93.<\/i><\/p>\n
Both work are first editions printed by Robert Granjon (1513-1590) in the so-called Civilit\u00e9 type, published one year after the first use of this newly designed invented French type face, (the first title was Dialogue de la vie et la mort, <\/i>1557).<\/p>\n
\u00ab Vraisemblablement fils du libraire parisien Jean Granjon dont il reprend au d\u00e9but l’adresse et l’enseigne. S’\u00e9tablit \u00e0 Paris en mars 1545. Fait \u00e0 partir de 1547 de fr\u00e9quents s\u00e9jours \u00e0 Lyon o\u00f9 plusieurs imprimeurs dont Jean I de Tournes lui ach\u00e8tent ses poin\u00e7ons. \u00c9tabli \u00e0 Lyon de 1556 (peut-\u00eatre d\u00e8s 1551) \u00e0 1562. Gendre du peintre lyonnais Bernard Salomon. Cr\u00e9ateur \u00e0 Lyon des caract\u00e8res dits de civilit\u00e9 ou “lettres fran\u00e7oises”, dont il obtient le privil\u00e8ge royal pour 10 ans en d\u00e9c. 1557 \u00bb (BnF).<\/p>\n
The two books by B\u00e9renger de la Tour d’Albenas form a diptych: they both begin with a long love play and are followed by translations or imitations of Italian poets (Ariosto, Folengo).<\/p>\n
L’Amie rustique<\/i> is divided into four eglogues. The poem is followed by Songs, a Song of Virtue and Fortune, Funeral Songs, Epitaphs, an Epistle (in prose) to M. de Rochecolombe, and the Nas\u00e9ide, restored in its entirety, dedicated to \u2018Alcofribas, Indien, roy de Nas\u00e9e\u2019.<\/p>\n
L’Amie des Amies<\/i> contains the episode of Isabelle and Zerbin, taken from the XXIVth canto of Ariosto’s Roland furieux<\/i>, and set in French verse of ten syllables. B\u00e9renger de La Tour has appended various poems, including the first book of the Mosch\u00e9ide, or the Combat des Mouches et des Fourmis, taken from the Moschea, a Macaronic poem by Folengo.<\/p>\n
Well represented in French institutional libraries USTC located very few copies of each title outside of France. Of Ami rustique<\/i> he locates 8 copies in France and only 6 in th rest of the world including one single copy in the United States (Germany: 1 ; Netherlands: 1 ; United Kingdom: 3 ; United States: Houghton : 1). Of L<\/i>\u2019Amie des Amies<\/i> USTC locates 8 copies in France, and just 4 in the rest of the world, including one single copy in the United States (United Kingdom: 3 ; United States: Princeton : 1).<\/p>\n
Fine copy, well established by Antoine Bauzonnet ; the date of th binding is given in red ink : 19 December 1838.<\/p>\n
Provenance : baron Pichon (sale 1869, n\u00b0528 : \u00ab Tr\u00e8s bel exemplaire provenant de la biblioth\u00e8que de l’abb\u00e9 Barr\u00e9, cur\u00e9 de Monville, pr\u00e8s de Rouen \u00bb Last vicar in Rouen of Church Saint-Eloi, \u00e0 Rouen, Barr\u00e9 became a bookseller in the harbour of that town) – R.-S. Turner (book plate, sale 1878, lot 294) – \u00c9tienne-Marie Bancel (book plate, sale 1882, lot 281) – Eug\u00e8ne-Gabriel Marigues de Champ-Repus (book plate, sale 1893) ; Gustave Herpin (sale 1903, lot 72) – Marcel B\u00e9nard (sale 1925) – Abel Lefranc (sale 1954) \u2013 Marcel Lecomte (book plate); the copy described in the Rothschild catalogue (I, n\u00b0662) also bound in citron morcco, berars the name of both binders Trautz-Bauzonnet, but also belonged to R.-S. Turner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deux works in 1 volume small 8vo (147 x 95 mm). Amie Rustique<\/i> : 44 nn.ll.. Collation : A-E8<\/sup> F4<\/sup> ; Amie des Amies<\/i> : 87 nn.ll. Collation : a-k8<\/sup> l7<\/sup> (final blanc supressed by the binder). Citron morocco by Bauzonnet (dated in ink 1838), decorative gilt border on covers, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1243,1207,1253],"class_list":{"0":"post-86639","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-16th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-calligraphy","9":"product_tag-typography","10":"pa_auteur-la-tour-dalbenas-francois-berenger-de-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Fran\u00e7ois B\u00e9renger de LA TOUR D'ALBENAS","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Lyon, Robert Granjon, 1558","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n