Jehan BOUCHET. Lamoureux transy sãs espoir nouvellement imprime a Paris. vii. Booklet in-4, bright red morocco, triple fillet, spine with 5 nerfs decorated à la grotesque, interior lace, gilt edges (Niedrée). Bechtel, 84/B-280 // Brunet, I-1154 // Renouard, ICP, III-34 // Renouard, 474 // Rothschild, IV-2826 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-10 // USTC, 89959. (34f.) / A4, B8, C-E4, F6, G4 / 40 lines on two columns, gothic car / 122 x 182 mm. Second edition according to Tchemerzine and fourth according to Bechtel, of Jean Bouchet's second work. In any case, it is extremely rare. A solicitor in Poitiers, Jean Bouchet (1476-1557) was a prolific writer whose works were much appreciated by his contemporaries. He was a friend of Rabelais and a protégé of Louis de La Trémoille, for whom he was poet laureate (Bechtel). He was the first poet to use a mixture of masculine and feminine rhymes in most of his verses. His Amoureux transy is a mixture of prose and poetry in which he deals with various subjects, love of course, but also a lament from a woman over her husband's coffin, a letter from a certain M.D. to a young lady who had promised to marry him, another letter from a fiancée to her fiancé, the unrequited lover who has gone off to war in Naples, a dialogue in which the author brings in the king, the church and the prince, and the unrequited lover who comes to ask the Virgin Mary for mercy... The work ends with the lover transy making the cronicque of the late king Charles Huytieme of that name, then with Epitaphs of ung lieutenãt en Poitou qui trespassa durãt le proces de son office lã mil. v cēs et deux. The first edition was published by Vérard around 1507. Tchemerzine and Brunet go on to describe the present edition. It is also given as the second edition in the Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, in which it is dated 1521 because of the printer's mark Jehan Janot on the last page, a mark reproduced by Renouard (no. 474). The edition cited by Bechtel as being the second published by Trepperel is dated by him between 1512 and 1525. It was probably published between 1522 and 1525, after the present edition. Title in red and black and 19 woodcuts in the text, 7 of which are repeated. The woodcuts are either large (3) or smaller (9). The title depicts a woman and a man in a garden, the man holding out a letter to the woman. Minor rubbing to hinges. Copy short in the upper margin, last leaf restored. Provenance: Alfred-Henry Huth (bookplate, I, 15-24 November 1911, no. 857) and Gancia bookshop stamp on one endpaper.