[DRELINCOURT, Laurent.] Sonnets chretiens. Sur divers sujets. Divisez en quatre livres.

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Protestant Poetry and a Persecuted Printer [DRELINCOURT, Laurent.] Sonnets chretiens. Sur divers sujets. Divisez en quatre livres. Niort: Widow of Philippe Bureau . 1677. 8vo. Near-contemporary sheep, spine gilt in compartments, title lettered directly in gilt, raised bands, speckled edges; pp. [xii], 171, [1 (blank)]; woodcut armillary sphere to title, typographic head- and tailpieces, woodcut factotum initials; corners and joints subtly restored, small abrasion to lower board, headcap and small portion of lower board chipped, small wormhole at foot of spine; small marginal paperflaw to title, closed paperflaw to f. I7 touching four words but not affecting legibility, pale dampstain at inner margin of quires H-L (heavier to quires K and L); else a very good copy; early ownership inscription ‘Jane Parker her book’ to front free endpaper, eighteenth-century ownership inscription ‘John Morton Junior’ to title. First edition, very rare, of these devotional sonnets by the Protestant poet, pastor, and theologian Drelincourt, printed in Niort by the Huguenot printer Anne Bureau, and dedicated to Princess Émilie von Hesse-Kassel, our copy with early English female provenance, likely brought to England by Bureau’s sons who had fled France in the aftermath of the Edict of Fontainebleau. Laurent Drelincourt (1625–1680), son of the noted Protestant divine Charles Drelincourt, studied theology and philosophy at Saumur before settling in Niort in 1663. His Sonnets , written during a perio

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