LES DELICES DE LA MORT

Rouen France: Jean Berthelin, 1631. Hardcover. Very Good-. Copperplates [Frontis + 4 further full page plates one for each chapter. plates after C.Galle. 8vo contemporary speckled leather on 4 raised bands with gilt decorated panels with fleur de lys center pieces, gilt titled direct to spine, Gilt dentelles. [tips bit bumped/edges rubbed] All fore-edges sprinkled red and blue Frontis + titlepage with large decorated snake-hair head + floral baroque decoration. + [4p =Dedication with headpiece + historiated elephant initial letter] [1p=to Reader] +[1p=Approbation] + 283pp +[1p=imprint] The frontis and the first plate are not included in the pagination and show stubs at the end of the gathering, all other plates are counted within the pagination. Name to front free endppaper and an crossing out by this owner of an earlier name.There are other copies printed in Belgium and elsewhere most with the date 1631 but since this is printed in the home country of the author it is probably an early printing. A lovely clean,unfoxed, unmarked book with exceedingly well printed plates which include one emblematic scene.