Molière - Théâtre complet de Molière - 1890

Beautiful eight-volume set in their superb bindings signed Flammarion-Vaillant. This comic and satirical edition explores the individual and collective foibles of 17th-century society, while retaining a universal scope -

Through character comedy, farce, the comédie-ballet, or satire, the author stages emblematic figures such as the miser, the hypocrite, the misanthrope, the vain bourgeois, the imaginary sick person, or the pseudo-scholar, each embodying an excessive distortion of a human trait -

The plots, often based on family, romantic, or social conflicts, provide a frame for a biting critique of pretensions, hypocrisies, and the ridicules that structure human relationships. Medicine, religion, education, arranged marriages, nobility, and the bourgeoisie are examined in turn with irony, revealing the tensions of a society attached to appearances -

Molière - Théâtre complet de Molière - SD (Circa 1890) - Tome I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII et VIII - Librairie des Bibliophiles -
Approximately 330 pages per volume -

Good condition of bindings, works in their brown half-leather period bindings, marbled boards, binding signed Flammarion-Vaillant, light signs of wear, gilded head edges, smooth spine nicely ornate, gilded titles, volumes numbers and author’s name gilded, gilt lines on the boards –

Good interior condition, browning, pretty headbands, works enriched with a frontispiece portrait of volume I and numerous engravings both in-text and out-of-text, marbled endpapers in good condition, a beautiful set –

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