Les Amours - Sonets pour Hélène

Les Amours - Sonets pour Hélène. Livret de Folastries. RONSARD (Pierre de), Les Editions Nationales, Paris, 1947. Quarto (4to) (29.7 x 24 cm), publisher's embossed boards. Cloth-backed cardboard chemise, covered in the same livery as the slipcase, with the author's name on the spine. Copy numbered 129 of 200 printed on pur fil Johannot paper (total edition of 350 copies including 50 hors commerce copies). Preface by André Mary of the Académie de Mallarmé I-X + 206 pp + Table + justification of the print run. Illustrated by Hubert Yencesse with 34 woodcuts in-text and 16 plates (separate). The edition also includes the 16 plates (separate) in a suite. The book has not been opened and the interior is very fresh. Some minor oxidation inside the cardboard chemise. Very slight oxidation on the lower board of the slipcase. Overall a very pleasant set in a beautiful state of preservation. Les Sonnets pour Hélène celebrate Hélène de Surgères in amorous poetry blending praise of beauty, gallant ideals, and meditation on the passage of time. Les Amours gather poems dedicated to love, mainly inspired by Cassandre Salviati and then Marie Dupin. The poet celebrates feminine beauty, romantic passion, and the torments of desire. Le Livret de Folastries presents another facet of Ronsard, more free, light, and satirical.