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Œuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle édition. Tome premier. (- sixiéme.)
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MOLIÈRE, (1622--1673)
[Works. 1734]
Œuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle édition. Tome premier. (- sixiéme.)
A Paris (Place), [de l'imprimerie de Pierre Prault; Michel-Etienne David, libraire],, 1734.
6 vols ; 28.2 cm. (4º)
I: [6], lxii, 330 p., engr. frontis. port., [4] pl.
II: [6], 447, [1] p., [6] pl.
III: [6], 442 p., [6] pl.
IV: [6], 420 p., [6] pl.
V: [6], 618 p., [5] pl.
VI: [6], 554 p, [6] pl.
Printer information from vol. VI colophon, publisher from the 'Privilège' (vol. I, p. lxiv). The second issue with the correction 'Comtesse' [for 'Comteese'] in vol. VI, p. 360. In vol. III pages 81--88 are misnumbered 71--78. Includes 'Memoires sur la Vie & les Ouvrages de Moliere' by J.L.I. de La Serre (vol. I, pp. [xvii]--lxi). With a portrait of Molière engraved by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié after Charles Antoine Coypel, and the plates engraved by Laurent Cars after François Boucher. Many of the engraved head- and tail-pieces are by Blondel. 'Le chef-d'oeuvre de Boucher, comme illustration; c'est l'un des plus beaux livres de la première partie du XVIIIe siècle'. See Cohen-De Ricci 712; D.B. Updike, Printing Types, Harvard University Press, 1937, p. 230.
Copy Notes Bought for 40 francs from Porquet [?], presumably via an agent, with the works of Rousseau, 18 volumes folio, 1793--1800 (q.v.), 260 francs and J.F. Sobry's De l'architecture, 1776 (q.v.), 3.50 francs, totalling Fr.303.50, 2 September 1831. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.7.23). £19 4s. 5d. was paid on 2 October 1831 (Priv. Corr.XVI.E.7.26), i.e. 12 2s. 11d. for the books and £7 1s. 6d. for Carriage, porterage - Duty at Dieppe and Brighton -- with case-. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.7.24).
Binding Contemporary C18th marbled calf, gilt triple-rule borders, gilt-tooled spines with small floral motifs, red morocco spine-labels, marbled fore-edges and endpapers.
Reference Number 384
Additional Names La Serre, Jean-Louis-Ignace de (ca.$1662--1756); Boucher, François (1703--1770); Porquet(?)
[Works. 1734]
Œuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle édition. Tome premier. (- sixiéme.)
A Paris (Place), [de l'imprimerie de Pierre Prault; Michel-Etienne David, libraire],, 1734.
6 vols ; 28.2 cm. (4º)
I: [6], lxii, 330 p., engr. frontis. port., [4] pl.
II: [6], 447, [1] p., [6] pl.
III: [6], 442 p., [6] pl.
IV: [6], 420 p., [6] pl.
V: [6], 618 p., [5] pl.
VI: [6], 554 p, [6] pl.
Printer information from vol. VI colophon, publisher from the 'Privilège' (vol. I, p. lxiv). The second issue with the correction 'Comtesse' [for 'Comteese'] in vol. VI, p. 360. In vol. III pages 81--88 are misnumbered 71--78. Includes 'Memoires sur la Vie & les Ouvrages de Moliere' by J.L.I. de La Serre (vol. I, pp. [xvii]--lxi). With a portrait of Molière engraved by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié after Charles Antoine Coypel, and the plates engraved by Laurent Cars after François Boucher. Many of the engraved head- and tail-pieces are by Blondel. 'Le chef-d'oeuvre de Boucher, comme illustration; c'est l'un des plus beaux livres de la première partie du XVIIIe siècle'. See Cohen-De Ricci 712; D.B. Updike, Printing Types, Harvard University Press, 1937, p. 230.
Copy Notes Bought for 40 francs from Porquet [?], presumably via an agent, with the works of Rousseau, 18 volumes folio, 1793--1800 (q.v.), 260 francs and J.F. Sobry's De l'architecture, 1776 (q.v.), 3.50 francs, totalling Fr.303.50, 2 September 1831. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.7.23). £19 4s. 5d. was paid on 2 October 1831 (Priv. Corr.XVI.E.7.26), i.e. 12 2s. 11d. for the books and £7 1s. 6d. for Carriage, porterage - Duty at Dieppe and Brighton -- with case-. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.7.24).
Binding Contemporary C18th marbled calf, gilt triple-rule borders, gilt-tooled spines with small floral motifs, red morocco spine-labels, marbled fore-edges and endpapers.
Reference Number 384
Additional Names La Serre, Jean-Louis-Ignace de (ca.$1662--1756); Boucher, François (1703--1770); Porquet(?)