Molière - Les Œuvres de Monsieur de Molière - 1682

Rarest posthumous edition of the playwright that gathers in two volumes his major comedies, which had already profoundly marked the French stage of the 17th century -

This edition, produced ten years after Molière's death, demonstrates the aim of fixing and consecrating his literary legacy by offering an orderly compilation of his most famous plays, such as Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Miser, or The Bourgeois Gentleman, which illustrate his comic genius and his ability to depict human foibles with satirical sharpness -

Superb rare plays in these works such as; The Précieuses Ridicules, The Imaginary Cuckold, L'Estourdy or the Contretems, Dépit Amoureux, The Fascheux, The School for Husbands, The School for Women, The Critique, The Princess of Elide, The Sicilian, Amphitryon & The Forced Marriage -

Molière - The Works of Monsieur de Molière - 1682 - Volumes I and II - Denis Thierry, Claude Barbin & Pierre Trabouillet -
(24) 304 pp. (4) and 416 Pages.

Good condition of bindings, works in their full brown leather of the period, wear from use, the spine of the first volume damaged with missing material, rubbed corners, red-speckled edges, spine with raised bands, gilded titrages and tomaisons -

Good interior condition, foxing and damp traces, handsome headbands, nice initial, culs-de-lampe, beautiful vignette on the title page -

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