DU TILLET (Jean). Recueil des roys de France, leurs couronne - Lot 262

DU TILLET (Jean). Recueil des roys de France, leurs couronne et maison. Ensemble, le rang des grands de France. Paris, Jean du Carroy for Jamet and Pierre Mettayer, 1602. 4 parts in one volume in-4, full old brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated. Rubbing, wear, damaged headpieces. (4) ff, 318 pp, 298 pp, (1) ff, 342 pp, 189-(1) pp, (16) ff. Rubbing, defects to headpieces, beginning of splitting to hinges. Numerous engraved portraits and coats of arms in the first part. Published in several enlarged editions from 1580 to 1588, the work concerns the kings and grandees of France, the kings of England, and the liberties of the Gallican Church. Jean Du Tillet (died 1570), was secretary to François I. At the latter's request, he was commissioned around 1540 to make an inventory of the Trésor des Chartes. "Important compendium, composed of several works which had initially been printed separately" (Brunet II, 923). "Of primary importance for French royal symbolism [...], it is a work of capital importance in terms of both text and illustration" (Saffroy, I, 10257).