RONSARD (P. de). RESPONCE AUX INJURES ET CALOMNIES, de ie ne - Lot 21

RONSARD (P. de). RESPONCE AUX INJURES ET CALOMNIES, de ie ne say quels Prédicans, & Ministres de Genève. Sur son discours et continuation des misères de ce temps. Lyon, sans nom, 1563. In-8 of 27 uncounted leaves, garnet-red chagrin, double gilt fillet on covers, ribbed spine, gilt inner lace (19th century binding). "Wretched scoffer who had no voice - Mute as a fish not two months ago - And now swollen by the death of a single man - You meditate on my name that France renames - Abbaying my virtue and making bragard - To put yourself in the limelight you take yourself to Ronsard". The author's response to the insulting pamphlet by Protestant Antoine de La Roche-Chandieu. A Lyon counterfeit published the same year as the Paris original, extremely rare. Copy short of margins, mending in the outer margin of the title. (Tchémerzine V, 443) (Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°733) (USTC, 14951, 6 ex.). Provenance: Ernest Stroehlin library with his bookplate bearing the motto "Mente libera" and the name Champel, an allusion to the place of execution of Michel Servet.