Paul Scarron - Le Virgile travesty en vers burlesque - 1655

Paul Scarron, Le Virgile travesty en vers burlesque, Parigi, sur l'Imprimé, 1655, six books bound together.

Solid and elegant 19th-century blue half leather binding with marbled paper plates and gold title on the spine, overall well preserved. Endpapers included.

LIVRE PREMIERE: pp. (XVI), 104. Complete.

LIVRE SECOND: pp. (VI), 110. Complete.

LIVRE TROISIESME: pp. (VIII), 87, (I). Complete.

LIVRE QUATRIESME: pp. 116. Complete. Section G (pp. 73-84) is placed between pp. 12 and 13 of the following book.

LIVRE CINQUIESME: pp. 121, (I). Complete.

LIVRE SIXIESME: pp. 115, (I). Complete.

Sheets in good overall condition, with usual signs of use and aging. There are some widespread water stains and old reinforcements on the outer margins of the last two sheets.

Rare and refined edition, which stands out from the others for being in only six books, instead of seven. Paul Scarron (1610–1660) was among the masters of Burlesque literature.
His unfinished masterpiece, Le Virgile travesty en vers burlesques, was first published in Paris by Quinet (later De Luyne) in 1648-53. It is a kind of parody of the Aneid, based on anachronisms, caricatured deformations, prosaic or licentious intrusions.