E. Bayard & E. Thierry - Œuvres complètes de Beaumarchais et Théâtre Complet de T. Corneille - 1875-1881

Complete Works of Beaumarchais - New Enlarged Edition of Four Plays and Various Unpublished Documents with an Introduction by Mr. Edouard Fournier
Adorned with 20 full-length colored portraits drawn by M. Emile Bayard.
Paris, Garnier Frères, Booksellers-Publishers, circa 1875 - Half brown leather binding, brown marbled paper covers, smooth spine titled in gold and decorated with wide gold borders, 780 pages, gilt top, marbled paper endpapers and flyleaves, size: 29 x 20 cm - Table of contents: see photos -
Among others: Life of Beaumarchais: 57 pages - Essay on the Serious Dramatic Genre: 8 pages - Memoirs pages 224 to 584 - Report on the Case of French Dramatic Authors and Comedians by Beaumarchais: pages 585 to 638 - Letters: pages 639 to 692 - Miscellanies: Verses and Songs: pages 693 to 702 - Politics and Political Economy: pages 745 to 753 - Letters: pages 754 to 770 - Theatre: Eugénie, a drama in 5 acts and prose.
Les Deux Amis or the Merchant of Lyon, a drama in 5 acts and in prose.
The Barber of Seville or The Unnecessary Precaution, a comedy in 4 acts
La Folle journée or The Marriage of Figaro, a comedy in 5 acts and in prose
L'Autre Tartufe or The Guilty Mother, a drama in 5 acts and in prose
Tarare, Opera in 5 acts / Theatre and Theatre Business: Jean Bête at the Fair /
Colin and Colette in one act / The Seven-League Boots, parade in one act /
The Deputies of the Halle and of Gros-Caillou (scene of Fishmongers and Master Fishermen)
Very good condition, however with some wear on the leather at the top of the back plate (see last photos).
Complete works of Thomas Corneille - New Edition preceded by a biographical notice concerning Thomas Corneille by M. Edouard Thierry, Conservator-Administrator of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal.
Abundantly and richly illustrated with a frontispiece under serpents (portrait of Thomas Corneille), colored drawings, and facsimiles of 18th-century engravings, under serpents - Laplace, Sanchez and Co., Publishers, Paris 1881 - Ex-Libris of Isidore Van Iseghem (see photos).
Red half-leather binding, red percaline boards, spine with four raised bands forming compartments, titled and decorated with gilt tools, gilded edges, very beautiful gutter, moiré endpapers and guards in white, 746 pages, size: 27 x 19 cm - Table of contents: see photos - Very beautiful copy, well complete with its engravings, in excellent condition.