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(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS. Set of 14 plays:
See original version (French)
81
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(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS. Set of 14 plays:
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS. Set of 14 plays:
- Henri III and his court. A historical drama in five acts, in prose. Second edition. Paris, Vezard, Le Normant Père, 1829.
In-8, paperback, modern blank cover
X, 171 pp.
- Charles VII amongst his great vassals. Tragedy in five acts. Paris, Charles Lemesle, 1831.
In-8, worn contemporary cardboard binding, untrimmed.
120 pp.
First edition.
- Don Juan de Marana, or The Fall of an Angel. Paris, Marchant, 1836 (Le Magasin théâtral).
8vo, sewn printed cover; untrimmed.
35 pp.
- Thérésa, a drama in five acts. Paris, Marchant; Brussels, Jouhaud, 1836. (Le Magasin théâtral).
8vo, printed sewn cover; untrimmed.
36 pp.
- Intrigue and Love. A drama in five acts and nine scenes. Translated from Schiller. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1847.
In-12, paperback, foxing.
99 pp.
First edition.
- *La Conscience*. A drama in five acts and six scenes. Paris, Librairie d’Alphonse Taride, 1851 [1854].
In-12, half-havana percaline, untrimmed.
108 pp.
First edition. The play is dedicated to Victor Hugo.
Munro, 274.
From the library of Jean Meyer with his bookplate.
First and last leaves foxed
- The same.
Paperback, spine warped, foxing.
- *The Oresteia*. A tragedy in three acts and in verse. Modelled on the ancient by… Second edition. Paris, À la Librairie Théâtrale, 1856.
In-12, paperback, foxing.
[3 ff.], 107 pp.
- *L’Invitation à la valse*. A one-act comedy in prose. Paris, Beck, 1857.
In-12, sewn printed cover (minor losses and tears).
48 pp.
First edition.
- *L’Honneur est satisfait*. A one-act comedy in prose. Paris, À la Librairie Théâtrale, 1858.
12mo, rust-coloured percaline, upper hinge split, faint water-stain.
[2 ff.], 48 pp.
First edition.
- The same. Paperback.
- *Les Mohicans de Paris*. A drama in five acts and nine scenes. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1864.
In-12, paperback.
[2 ff.], VII, 162 pp.
First edition.
- Paul MEURICE. Theatre (studies and copies). Hamlet – Falstaff – Paroles, after Shakespeare. Paris, Pagnerre, 1864.
In 18, blue percaline.
[2 ff.], 277 pp., [1 f.] table of contents, [1 f.].
*Hamlet* was written in collaboration with Alexandre Dumas; the other two plays were written in collaboration with Auguste Vacquerie.
- *Madame de Chamblay*. A drama in five acts. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1869.
In-12, red half-basane, spine with 5 raised bands highlighted with gilt fillets, speckled edges.
[3 ff.], 96 pp.
First edition. The play premiered at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 31 October 1868.
Munro, 350.
Foliate stains.
- Une Fille du Régent. A comedy in five acts, in prose. Paris, Tresse, 1874.
In-12, paperback.
48 pp.
- The same author. *Magasin théâtral*, undated.
In-8, narrow-spined half-black shagreen, foxing.
35 pp.
Bound together with:
MM. Prosper DINAUX and Ernest LEGOUVÉ. *Louise de Lignerolles*. A drama in five acts, in prose.
MOLIÈRE. *Le Tartuffe*.
- *Kean, or Disorder and Genius*. A comedy in three acts. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, undated.
12mo, paperback, cover damaged.
[2 ff.], pp. 101–212.
Included:
- The critic Jules Janin and the playwright Alexandre Dumas on *Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr*, a comedy in five acts. Extracts from the *Journal des Débats* and *La Presse*. Paris, Available from all booksellers, 1843.
12mo, blue half-percaline, title label in rubbed red morocco, covers preserved, foxing.
IV, 44 pp.
- J. GOIZET. An Anecdotal History of Collaboration in the Theatre. Paris, Published by the Office of the Dictionnaire du théâtre. 1867.
In-12, paperback.
[2 ff.], 163 pp.
First edition.
Minor damage to the spine.
- Marie-Antoinette ALLEVY. Critical edition of a Romantic stage direction. General guidelines for the staging of *Henri III et sa cour*… by Albertin. Paris, Droz, 1938.
Large 8vo, paperback.
41 pp., [1 f.].
See original version (French)
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