Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de. Oeuvres avec des remarques grammaticales; des avertissemens et des observations sur chaque pièce par M. Bret. 6 vols.

Titles printed in red and black. With engr. portrait of the author in front of title of vol. I, 33 copperplates by Moreau le jeune, and 6 engr. title vignettes. 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. Spines gitl with 2 green labels. Edges gilt. – Paris, La Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1788.

Re-edition of the 1773 edition of Molière’s (1622–1673) collected plays. The edition is preceded by the publisher’s foreword and Voltaire’s life of Molière, while all plays are introduced by a commentary by Antoine Bret, himself a playwright and a profilic 18th-century French critic. – Cf. Sander 1373 (“bonne réimpression“); Cohen/De Ricci 716ff. – Modern engr. bookplate on flyleaves of all six volumes. First outer hinge of vol. VI split. Endpapers browned. Copperplates verso with some foxing. The pages clean throughout. – Best.-Nr. 25267