Iardin des muses
Subtitle: ou se voyent les fleurs de plusieurs aggreables poësies : recueillies de diuers autheurs, tant anciens que modernes
Publisher: Chez Antoine de Sommauille, au palais, en la salle des merciers, à l'escu de France et Augustin Courbè, dans la mesme salle, à la Palme
Published: 1643
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre; lat
Translated from: lat; grc
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: French poetry; Early works to 1800; Medieval and modern Latin poetry; Latin Epigrams; Translations into French; Latin poetry; Greek poetry
Other titles: Iardin des mvses; Jardin des muses
Description: A collection of 312 poems, chiefly French, by authors including Clément Marot, Marc de Maillet, Pierre de Ronasard, François de Maynard, Pierre Forget, Théophile, ʺnouveau Theophileʺ, Marie de Gournay, Jacqueline Pascal, etc.; also includes French translations of epigrams of Martial, Ausonius, and others. Consult Lachèvre and Brunet.
Notes: Compiled by Pierre Guillebaud. Consult Lachèvre.

Dedicatory epistle signed: A. de Sommaville.

Signatures: ã⁶ A-2B⁶.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Last leaf blank.

Includes errata (page [12] first sequence).

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres (5e éd.), tome 3, column 509

Lachèvre, F. Bibliographie des recueils collectifs de poesies publiés de 1597 à 1700, tome 2, pages 13-16

Purchase; Librairie P. James; September 1973 *73-700

French with some Latin.

Engraved, illustrated bookplate: Ex libris F. Lachèvre le Vésinet. Engraving signed: H.M. '83.

Bound in vellum over boards with yapp style fore-edge; maroon ribbon bookmark; manuscript spine title; in phase box.