DEMANDS DAMOURS With ioyeous Responses. Small booklet in-8, midnight blue morocco, triple fillet, 5 ribbed spine decorated in the grotesque style, interior lace, gilt edges (Bauzonnet-Trautz). Barbier, I-874 // Not in Baudrier // Bechtel, 219/D-151 // Brunet, Supplément I-359 // Fairfax Murray, 118 // Gultlingen, VI-121 // Tchemerzine-Scheler, II-309c // USTC, 38715. (12f.) / A8, B4 / 22 long lines, gothic car / 82 x 134 mm. A very rare booklet devoted to courtly love. This work, of which there were numerous editions from 1490 onwards, is the written version of a courtly aristocratic game known as "jeu du roy qui ne meurt". It consists of prose questions and answers exchanged between the Lover and the Lady: Je vous demande. Qui est lennemy mortel qui le chastel peult grever. Response. Eslongner. The text has long been wrongly attributed to Alain Chartier. None of the editions listed by Bechtel is dated. The present edition has the title in Roman script and the rest in Gothic script, and is illustrated with a fine woodcut on the title depicting a man holding a flower facing a group of young women. It was donated by the printer and bookseller Jacques Moderne, also known as (Le) Grand Jacques, who was established in Lyon before 1523 and specialised in music publishing, a printer and bookseller who escaped Baudrier. This booklet is very rare. Our copy is cited by Brunet, is said to be the only one known according to Fairfax Murray and all bibliographies refer only to it. It is also the only one cited by the USTC. A fine copy, entirely ruled in red ink. The upper margin has been rebacked throughout the volume, but the lower margin has not been touched and is fully intact. Provenance: Fairfax Murray (unlabelled, no. 118) and very probably Adolphe Audenet (1839 catalogue, no. 508, described as bound in blue morocco with a large number of witnesses at the bottom of the margins, very short at the top).