Gros & Delettrez
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[COMEDY. 17th century. THEATRE CONTROVERSY].
See original version (French)
27
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[COMEDY. 17th century. THEATRE CONTROVERSY].
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[COMEDY. 17th century. THEATRE CONTROVERSY].
[Four rare titles for and against comedy].
SET of 3 titles. 1694–1696. 3 pamphlets and one bound volume, in-12 (in good overall condition).
- [CHILLIAT, Michel].
Les Souffleurs, a comedy.
Paris, Widow of Ch. Coignard, C. Cellier, 1694.
12mo, (3)-143 pp. and 1 pp. of errata, with generous margins. 19th-century brown morocco, decorated ribbed spine, gilt compartments, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt garland on the inside, gilt edges (jaws and corners slightly rubbed but a fine copy).
A rare first edition of this comedy, which pokes fun at alchemists, then known as ‘souffleurs’. Only one entry in the CCFr.
Bound here in morocco leather signed ‘Brany’, a Parisian bookbinder from the last third of the 19th century.
A fine copy of the text, virtually as published.
-[GERBAIS, Jean, attributed to].
Letter from a doctor of the Sorbonne to a person of standing on the subject of comedy.
Paris: Claude Mazuel, 1694.
In-12, Unbound, sewn quires.
A short polemical treatise attempting to demonstrate the spiritual and moral dangers of comedy...
-[LA GRANGE, Ch. de].
Refutation of a text in favour of comedy, printed at the beginning of the plays by Monsieur Boursault.
Paris, 1694.
12mo, unbound, sewn quires.
-A decree issued by His Lordship to the Bishop of Arras within his diocese against comedy.
In Paris, published by P. Ballard, 1696.
In-12, unbound, sewn quires.
An attempt by Guy de Sève de Rochechouart, then Bishop of Arras, to ban comedy within his jurisdiction.
See original version (French)
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