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[TYARD (PONTUS DE)] Douze fables de fleuves ou fontaines, avec la description pour la peinture, & les epigrammes, first edition, Paris, Jean Richer, 1585
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[TYARD (PONTUS DE)]
Douze fables de fleuves ou fontaines, avec la description pour la peinture, & les epigrammes, first edition, printer's device on title, without final blank, crushed green morocco by Chambolle Duru, g.e. [Adams T1218], 12mo (135 x 78mm.), Paris, Jean Richer, 1585
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SCARCE, USTC recording seven copies of the first edition. The work consists of descriptions of mythological scenes which were to be the subjects of paintings at the Chateau d'Anet, built by Henri II for Diane de Poitiers. The subjects are all drawn from Greek and Egyptian mythology, the unifying theme being the allusion to water in each one. Pontus de Tyard (or Thiard; 1521-1605), was seigneur of Bissy and bishop of Chalon-sur-Saone. He was a poet and friend of Ronsard and one of the founders of the Pleiade.
