Du Bellay (Joachim) La Defense et Illustration de la Langue Francoise, [Adams D982], Paris, Frederic Morel, 1561; Deux Livres de l'Eneide de Vergile, [Adams D984], 1561; La Monomachie de David et de Goliath, [Adams D990], 1561; Recueil de Poesie..., D2 and D3 misbound, [Adams D994], 1561; Discours au Roy sur la Trefue de l'An MDLV, collates A-D4, [Not in Adams], 1561; Epithalame sur le Mariage de...Prince Philibert Emanuel, Duc de Savoye..., [Adams D987], 1561; Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum Regis, [Adams D996], 1561; Ode sur la naissance du petit Duc de Beaumont, [Adams D991], 1561; Aubert (Guillaume) Elegie sur le Trespas de feu Ioach. Du-Bellay, [Adams A2117], 1561, together 9 works in 1 vol., woodcut device on titles, decorartions and initials, brown crushed morocco, gilt, by Chambolle-Duru with strap-work onlays in black and tan morocco and elaborate gilt floral motifs, spine gilt and with repeat of strap-work onlays in compartments, g.e., 4to, Paris, Frederic Morel, 1561.
⁂ Rare sammelband of works by the great French poet, who was known by his contemporaries as the "French Ovid". These Morel imprints were published the year after the poet's death. His most celebrated work, the Defense et Illustration de la Langue Francaise constituted the manifesto of the literary principles of the Pleiade, the literary circle around Rousseau and Du Bellay who strove to restore and promote vernacular French poetry and defend the poetical possibilities of the French language. Best known for his tender and lyrical love poems, his sonnets also inspired Volney and Chateaubriand.