(1544). MILET (Jacques). LA DESTRUCTION DE TROYE LA GRANDE, - Lot 212

(1544). MILET (Jacques). LA DESTRUCTION DE TROYE LA GRANDE, LE RAVISSEMENT D'HELEINE FAICT PAR PARIS ALEXANDRE, composée en rithme françoyse par maistre Jehan de Mehun premier inventeur de rethorique françoyse: avec les prouesses, noblesses, & vertus du preux Hector, la damnable trahison commise par les grecs, la description de fortune mobile & instable. Lyon, Denys de Harsy, 1544. In-folio of 181(of 185) leaves, cold-stamped brown calf (boards remounted on a modern binding). Lyon edition illustrated with 43 LARGE WOODEN ENGRAVINGS (14 x 10 cm and 15.5 x 19.5 cm) in the style of the romans de chevalerie. This famous 27,000-verse play, composed by Jacques Milet for Charles VII in 1452, was published in numerous editions in the 15th and 16th centuries. Copy incomplete of 4 leaves (7, 17, 177, 181). Minor worm damage to quires x, a, z, and to quires ed and ff; a few stains and repaired leaves without lack of text. Binding rubbed, one cover restored (USTC, 40379) (Baudrier, suppl. I, 66).