Molière / Boucher - Œuvres de Molière - 1760

Rare set that gathers all the great comedies, farces and theatrical plays of Molière in a vast eight-volume edition enriched with illustrations attributed to Boucher, offering a masterful synthesis of one of the pinnacles of French classical literature and 17th-century European theatre -

Through famous works such as Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Miser, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Learned Ladies, Don Juan, The Imaginary Invalid or The Pretentious Prudes, Molière deploys a sharp critique of human follies and the social hypocrisies of his time, using laughter, satire and psychological observation to denounce avarice, pride, religious fanaticism, worldly vanity, social ambition, pedantry and false appearances -

Each play features archetypal characters, such as Harpagon, Tartuffe, Alceste or Monsieur Jourdain, whose excessive faults serve to reveal the ridicules of French society under the reign of Louis XIV -

Molière / Boucher - Works of Molière - 1760 - Volume I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII - Gibert -
300 pages per volume -

Good condition of the bindings, works in their full period morocco bindings, wear from use, a few minor defects on covers and spines, several capitals damaged, bindings slightly cracked, corners worn, red edges, spines with raised bands, gilded titles and volume numbers on morocco pieces -

Good interior condition, some stains, title pages printed in red and black and adorned with a beautiful vignette, pretty headbands, works enriched with beautiful off-text illustrations including a frontispiece by Boucher, marbled endpapers in decent condition, provenance: Alfred Cortot Library then Jean Cortot -

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