Jehan BOUCHET. Le Panegyric du Chevallier sans reproche. In-8, red morocco, triple fillet, nicely decorated 5-nerve spine, interior lace, gilt edges (Capé). Bechtel, 91/B-321 // Brunet, I-1158 // De Backer, 253 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-49 // USTC, 8402. 214 f. poorly numbered (18f.)-CXCVI / [ ]4 (one blank), +8, A6, B-Z8, Aa6, Bb8, Cc6 / 32 long lines, gothic car. / 131 x 188 mm. Very rare first edition of this eulogy in verse and prose of the knight Louis II de La Trémoille (1460-1525) and account of the Italian wars in which he participated until the disaster of Pavia, where he died gloriously. His contemporaries called him the knight without reproach. He served under four kings, distinguishing himself at the battles of Fornoue, Agnadel and Marignan. Jean Bouchet (1476-1557) was a public prosecutor in Poitiers, but he also had a literary career, and his works were much appreciated by his contemporaries. He was a friend of Rabelais and a protégé of Louis de La Trémoille. The edition is illustrated with a handsome engraved title framed on the sides and in the upper part by rectangular woodcuts with screened backgrounds decorated with vases, flowers, statuary and foliate motifs with the printer's mark, and on the verso a very fine woodcut depicting Louis II de La Trémoille surrounded by coats of arms. Repairs to the first 3 leaves. Provenance: Alfred-Henry Huth (bookplate, I, 15-24 November 1911, no. 862) and Gancia bookshop stamp on one endpaper.