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281 - [CRITICAL WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES].
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[CRITICAL WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. A collection of 11 volumes from the 19th and 20th centuries. FOURNEL (Victor). Molière’s Contemporaries... Paris, F. Didot, 1863. 3 volumes in-8, contemporary green half-percaline Bradel binding. Théâtre de l’Hôtel de Bourgogne; Théâtre de la Cour: ballets and masquerades; Théâtre du Marais.  NISARD (Charles). Histoire des livres populaires ou de la littérature de Colportage... Paris, Dentu, 1864. 2 volumes in-8, red half-shagreen, ribbed spine, untrimmed.  CORNEILLE. *Corneille at the Butte Saint-Roch*, a one-act play… preceded by notes on the life of Corneille by Édouard Fournier. Paris, Dentu, 1862. In-12, contemporary brown half-chagrin. Autograph dedication by the author (Fournier), frontispiece. DUPOND (Albert). *L’Argenis de Barclai: A Literary Study*. Paris, E. Thorin, 1875. In-8, contemporary pale calfskin, gilt coat of arms on the covers, marbled edges. Binding bearing the coat of arms of Baron Pavée de Vendeuvre (1779–1870). BLESSEBOIS (Pierre-Corneille). *Le Lion d’Angelie*. Preceded by a note on the novelistic style and a response to the attacks against Corneille Blessebois by Marc De Montifaud. Brussels, A. Lacroix, [1877]. 8vo, later half-shagreen. FURETIÈRE (Antoine). *Le Roman bourgeois*. Paris, Quantin, 1880. 8vo, Bradel binding, half black shagreen (A. Buvat). HARMAND (René). *Essay on the Life and Works of Georges Brébeuf*. Paris, 1897. Large 8vo, later brown half-shagreen, ribbed spine, cover. CLERC (Charles). *The Tragicomical Life of Georges Scudéry*, with a preface by M. G. Lenôtre. Paris, Spès, 1929. 8vo, black cloth.
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About the sale Xavier de Planhol Library – The Origins of the Novel
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