RECUEIL DE SERCY.

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RECUEIL DE SERCY.
- Selected poems. Part One. Fourth Edition, revised, corrected & expanded. Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1657. In-12, rigid vellum at the time. Famous collection of poems known as the Recueil de Sercy, published in several parts from 1653 and reprinted until the early 1660s. The pieces it contains were the delight of their contemporaries and met with great success (cf. Lachèvre, Recueils collectifs, t. I, p. 52). It contains poems by Benserade, Boisrobert, Brébeuf, Corneille, Tallemant des Réaux, Furetière, De Scudéry, Maynard, Sarasin, Théophile de Viau, Tristan L'Hermite, etc. The volume presented, the first part alone (out of 5), is decorated with a title-frontispiece engraved on copper dated 1653 which is that of the original edition. Angular tear without missing from folio D2.
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