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MOLIRE, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de (1622-1673). Les Oeuvres. Paris: Michel Lambert for la Compagnie des Libraires associs, 1773.
6 vols., 8o (197 x 126 mm). Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait-frontispiece by Ficquet after Coypel, 6 engraved title vignettes and 33 engraved plates by Moreau le jeune, engraved by Moreau, Baquoy, de Launay, Duclos, de Ghendt, Helman, Le Bas, Ne and others, woodcut tailpieces and a few head-pieces. Privilege leaf at end. Vol. I with "cancel" sheet B2.7 completing omitted text. The portrait and 13 plates with impressions avant la lettre, Mlicerte plate in vol. IV with an additional extra proof of eau-forte pure. (Repaired internal tears to text leaves I:Kk1, II:Cc6, VI:K6, 2 or 3 small marginal tears or repairs.) Green morocco gilt by Derme le jeune, with his 1785 ticket (Ract-Madoux K2) on verso of front endleaf in volume I, covers with narrow borders of fleur-de-lis and leafy roll-tools framing dotted and geometrical inner borders, flat spines gilt in compartments with small floral tools and gilt circles, the second compartments gilt lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt, gilt edges. (Recased to accommodate the extra-illustrations, spines a bit darkened, headcap of vol. VI chipped and with old repair, occasional minor rubbing to extremities, one or two other minor small restorations); board slipcases. Provenance: Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford (1806-1864) (sale, Paris, 1 May, 1882, lot 221).
A FINE COPY IN A DERME LE JEUNE BINDING. Copies with impressions of the plates avant la lettre are rare, and proofs of the pure etchings are even more unusual. Ray French 50; Tchemerzine IV, 828; Cohen-de Ricci 716-19, citing this copy ("en maroquin vert de Derme avec les avant-lettres ajoutes aprs coup, 7800 fr., vente Gosford no.221"). (6)
6 vols., 8
A FINE COPY IN A DERME LE JEUNE BINDING. Copies with impressions of the plates avant la lettre are rare, and proofs of the pure etchings are even more unusual. Ray French 50; Tchemerzine IV, 828; Cohen-de Ricci 716-19, citing this copy ("en maroquin vert de Derme avec les avant-lettres ajoutes aprs coup, 7800 fr., vente Gosford no.221"). (6)