François VILLON. - Lot 214

François VILLON. Œuvres avec les Remarques de diverses personnes. A La Haye, chez Adrien Moetjens, 1742, 3 parts in one in-12 volume bound in contemporary full calf, ornate ribbed spine, title page, spines cracked. Handwritten bookplate on title by Grosley. Rare edition published shortly after Coustelier's (1723). François Villon's works had not been republished since the 16th century. This edition includes remarks by Eusèbe de Laurière, Le Duchat and Forney. "This edition is preferable to Coustelier's because the editor has added new notes, a few unpublished fragments, memoirs of Villon by Prosper Marchand and a critical letter from the Mercure of February 1724" Brunet V, 1249.