SCARRON (Paul). Virgil travesty in burlesque verse. Livre pr - Lot 177

SCARRON (Paul). Virgil travesty in burlesque verse. Livre premier - deuxième - troisième - quatrième. Paris, Toussainct Quinet, 1648 - 1649. One volume in-4, full contemporary limp vellum, handwritten title on spine. (11) ff, 122 pp, (1) f.; (3) ff, 128 pp, (4) ff, 101 pp; (1) f. blc, (4) ff, 127 pp. Loss of vellum at lower corner of second cover, paper slightly browned, small tear with loss at lower corner of engraving in Book III. Engraved intaglio frontispiece by François Chauveau repeated at the head of each Book and 4 unsigned hors-texte or full-page engravings. Rare 1-volume set of the first 4 books of Virgile travesty, a literary parody of Virgil's Aeneid, which, due to the author's death, remained unfinished (the last book was published in 1653). The first Book is preceded by a collection of plays dedicated to Scarron by the greatest literary names of the time: Scudéry, Tristan, Lhermite, Boisrobert, Dupin, etc.