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MOLIÈRE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de (1622-1673). Oeuvres ... revuês, corrigées & augmentées. Paris: Denys Thierry, Claude Barbin & Pierre Trabouillet, 1682.
8 volumes, 12° (159 x 89mm). Woodcut and typographic ornaments and initials, 30 engraved plates by J. Sauvé after P. Brissart, E10 and final two leaves in vol.I (blanks), first blank leaf in vol.VI. Dark blue morocco, spines in compartments with gilt lettering, inner gilt dentelles, by Trautz-Bauzonnet, g.e. Provenance: Mosbourg collection (blue morocco gilt booklabel); Lindeboom collection (red morocco gilt armorial booklabel).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTED EDITION of the works of Molière, which includes FIRST EDITIONS of six plays, Don Garcie de Navarre, L'Impromtu de Versailles, Don Juan ou le Festin de Pierre, Mericerle, Les Amours magnifiques and La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas. The texts were corrected after the author's death from his manuscripts by the actors Vinot and La Grange. Guibert, Bibliographie de Molière pp.609-646; Tchemerzine VIII-358-359 (calling erroneously for 31 plates.) (8)
8 volumes, 12° (159 x 89mm). Woodcut and typographic ornaments and initials, 30 engraved plates by J. Sauvé after P. Brissart, E10 and final two leaves in vol.I (blanks), first blank leaf in vol.VI. Dark blue morocco, spines in compartments with gilt lettering, inner gilt dentelles, by Trautz-Bauzonnet, g.e. Provenance: Mosbourg collection (blue morocco gilt booklabel); Lindeboom collection (red morocco gilt armorial booklabel).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTED EDITION of the works of Molière, which includes FIRST EDITIONS of six plays, Don Garcie de Navarre, L'Impromtu de Versailles, Don Juan ou le Festin de Pierre, Mericerle, Les Amours magnifiques and La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas. The texts were corrected after the author's death from his manuscripts by the actors Vinot and La Grange. Guibert, Bibliographie de Molière pp.609-646; Tchemerzine VIII-358-359 (calling erroneously for 31 plates.) (8)