Joseph de La Grange-Chancel / Edme Boursault - Méléagre / Esope à la cour / Les Fables d'Esope - 1699-1706

Joseph de La Grange-Chancel (1677-1758). Méléagre. Paris, Jean Guignard, 1699, (2) ff. 64 pp., 62 pp. [Bound with] Edme Boursault (1638-1701). Esope à la cour. Paris, François le Breton, 1706, (9) ff. 97 pp. [Bound with] Edme Boursault. Les Fables d'Esope. Paris, Nicolas Gosselin, 1700, (10) ff. 101 pp. (2) ff.

A volume in-12 (165x95 mm), full calf, ornamented spine with nerves, red morocco title piece, mottled edges (period binding). Good condition of the binding, one rounded corner. Interior fresh, without foxing.

Collection of four plays: the original edition of Méléagre, a tragedy written by Joseph de La Grange-Chancel; followed by a play titled La Feste de la Seine (without a title page); and two reprints of comedies by Edme Boursault, Esope à la cour and Les Fables d'Esope (third edition).