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Set of the most important works by the first Dutch burlesque poet

FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van.
Eerste - Tweede deel van de Thalia, of geurige sang-godin.- Afrikaense Thalia, of derde deel, van de geurige zang-godin.- De verwarde jalousy, bly-spel.

With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a different one to each part, and woodcut vignette on separate title to the added comedy.

With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a different one to each part, and woodcut vignette on separate title to the added comedy.

With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a different one to each part, and woodcut vignette on separate title to the added comedy.

With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a different one to each part, and woodcut vignette on separate title to the added comedy.

With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a different one to each part, and woodcut vignette on separate title to the added comedy.



Amsterdam, David Lindenius & Andries Vinck, 1679. 3 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a different one to each part, and woodcut vignette on separate title to the added comedy. (16), 447, (1 blank); (16), 223, (1) pp.

With:
(2) (ULAEUS, Johannes & Willem Godschalk van FOCQUENBROCH). De herders-sangen van Virgilius Maro, in Nederduyts gesongen, op twee verscheydene toonen. Amsterdam, David Lindenius & Andries Vinck, 1679. With a beautiful engraved frontispiece on bucolic life by Schoonebeek. (16), 112 pp.
(3) FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Min in 't Lazarus-huys, blyspel. Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel, 1674. With large allegorical engraving on title. (8), 77, (3 blank) pp.

Ad 1: Rare complete edition of Thalia, a popular song book by Willem Godschalk van Focqenbroch (ca. 1635-1675), the first Dutch poet who favoured the burlesque as genre, with the French author Paul Scarron as his main model. Focquenbroch was a practicing physician in Amsterdam, but he could barely make a living, because of his rather loose way of life, so he left Amsterdam in about 1668 for West Guinee, on the African Gold-Coast, where he died as a tax collector.
The first two parts of Thalia were probably still written in Amsterdam, containing many frivolous songs to the young ladies and to the wine, set to well known melodies, but they also include a 'Farce about a Quack Doctor', and a travesty in verse of Virgil's Aeneas; they end with a poem in praise of the East-Indies and a last poem called 'Japanese Dream'. So, he obviously was dreaming of leaving the Netherlands. The third part, the 'African Thalia', was written at his post on the coasts of West Guinee, with the beautiful frontispiece showing strange allegorical visions of the poet's African business. This part continues the travesty in verse of Virgil's Aeneas, and after many light-hearted songs set to popular tunes, it ends with letters written from Africa. A comedy, 'The confused jalousy' is added with continued pagination, at the end. The comedy was also issued seperately. In fact it is a part of the Afrikaense Thalia, an adaptation of Molière's play Sganarelle, ou cocu imaginaire.
Ad 2. Translation in verse of Virgil's Bucolica, made together with J. Ulaeus, here published for the first time.
Ad 3. First edition of a notorious play by Focquenbroch, Min in 't Lazarushuis, translated from the Spanish Los Locos de Valencia by Lopez de Vega Carpio. It caused quite a scandal when it was performed at Amsterdam in 1674, but the play became so popular that is was regularly performed for well over a century. 19th century literary historians considered Focquenbroch's work too coarse and tried to ban the poet from official literature, still in his time he was very popular and modern literary historians again recognize his merits as a 17th-century burlesque poet. our copy has a half-title reading: "Alle de Wercken van W.G. V. Focquenbroch", it is no regular 'Collected Works'-edition, but an occasional collection of works in stock at the publishers'. As such the collection was re-issued in 1682-87. Focquenbroch's Alle de Werken were first published posthumously in Amsterdam in 1696, edited by A. Bogaert. A second edition was published in 1709, and a third in 1723, probably with several re-issues in between.

Good copy.
Ad 1: Waller 549; Scheurleer, Liedboeken 174; cf. Scheepers II, 125 (first ed. of the first two parts ofThalia, 1669, later ed. have three parts); Scheepers I, 103 (limited collection of works, incl. parts of "Thalia" I-II, ed. by Boeckholt  at Amsterdam, 1676);  ad 2:  Geerebaert CXLIII 18 a; ad 3: Waller 1727 (undated ed. Widow Gijsb. de Groot, ca. 1730); see also: Scheepers I, 104, and Scheepers II, 124 (1st collected works by Bogaert of 1696); Waller 548 (idem, ed. 1709).

Related Subjects: Dutch  Literature  Popular Books  Songbooks 

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