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MOLIERE, Jean Baptiste Pocquelin de. Oeuvres, Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1773. 6 volumes, 8°, half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cathelin after Mignard in vol. one, titles printed in red and black, title vignettes, 33 plates by Moreau, Bacquoy, de Launay, Duclos and others (occasional light marginal waterstaining), contemporary calf, spine lavishly decorated in gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, (head and tail of spines and corners rubbed), t.e.g. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the repetition of pages 66-67 and 80-81 in volume one. Brunet III, 1798: "De toutes les éditions des oeuvres de Molière avec les notes de Bret, celle-ci est la plus belle el la plus recherchée"; Cohen de Richi 716-719; Thomas A Checklist of Editions of Major French Authors in Oxford Libraries 1526-1800 p.126. (6)
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