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[COLLECTION OF 18TH-CENTURY FRENCH PLAYS].
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124
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[COLLECTION OF 18TH-CENTURY FRENCH PLAYS].
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
[COLLECTION OF 18TH-CENTURY FRENCH PLAYS].
Paris, 1719–1746.
28 plays bound in 4 in-8 volumes (19 x 12 cm). Contemporary polished fawn calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, title and volume number labels in red morocco, panels decorated with small dotted ironwork and gilt roulette, gilt fillet with notches, gilded scrolls on the endpapers of vols. I and II, red edges (slight rubbing; upper joint of vol. 1 slightly split; upper caps rubbed or partially worn away; stains on the upper cover of vol. 1; corners blunt).
Fine copies, free from defects, in a very attractive contemporary binding.
Among the comedies:
CAHUSAC (WATELEZ according to a manuscript note) *Zeneide*, Comedy, Paris, published by Prault, 1744, with a fine frontispiece engraved after Pierre and a large engraved vignette with figures on the title page, 42 pp
CAHUSAC *L’Algérien, ou les muses comédiennes*, comedy-ballet, Paris, published by Prault, 1744, 128 pp
- *Le fat puni*, comedy with divertissement
Published by Prault fils, 1738; frontispiece engraved by Fessard after Tremolières and a fine printer’s mark with an engraved motto on the title page, 60 pp
- *Le Sonnambule*, same publisher
-*L’École du Monde* (The School of the World), a dialogue in verse, 1740
-*Retour de l’Ombre de Molière* (The Return of Molière’s Shadow), a comedy, by Chaubert, 1740
-GRESSET. *Sidney*, a comedy, The Hague, 1745 (4)-46 pp
- *Julie, or The Happy Trial* (comedy), Paris, Chez Prault, 1746. With permission. 24 pp. and appendix (apparently missing from the *Dictionnaire des théâtres*)
- FUZELIER. *Momus the Fable-Teller, or The Wedding of Vulcan*. Paris, P. Simon, 1719. Frontispiece engraved by Bonnart
-DE BOISSY. *The Frenchman in London*. Paris, Barbou, 1727.
-DOVE. *Les Amants déguisés* in three acts. Paris, Delatour, 1728.
- PIRON. *Le Fils Ingrats*. Paris, Mergé, 1729.
- PESSELIER. *Esope au Parnasse*... Paris, Prault, 1739.
-L’Oracle. Paris, Prault, 1740. Large vignette engraved with figures by Cochin, 25 pp, followed by a divertissement
-L’École du monde... Preceded by a prologue by ‘L’Ombre de Molière’. Paris, published by Chaubert, 1740.
- *Les Fri-Maçons*, a hyperdrama. London, J... T..., 1740.
- *Joconde*, a one-act comedy in prose. Paris, Prault fils, 1741.
- *Les Veuves turcs*, comedies... Translated from the Arabic. Paris, Prault, 1742.
Manuscript titles and tables of contents for the plays on the front endpapers of each volume.
Provenance: The old library of Marc-Pierre de VOYER DE PAULMY, Count of ARGENSON, with his copper-engraved ex-libris on the endpapers, covered with marbled paper but partially exposed in volume 3.
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