MOLIERE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, said). Works.... - Lot 136 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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MOLIERE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, said). Works.... - Lot 136 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
MOLIERE (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, said). Works. Preceded by a notice on his life and his works by M. Sainte Beuve. Vignettes by Tony Johannot. Paris, Paulin, 1835-36. Two large volumes in-8, contemporary bindings in green half-maroquin, spines decorated in of gilt and cold filets and gilt fleurons on the nerves, gilt head, not trimmed (Capé). not trimmed (Capé). First printing. Famous edition decorated with a portrait-frontispiece of Molière engraved by Porret here in double state, on vellum and on white, titles decorated with two different vignettes and about 800 woodcut vignettes in the text after Tony Johannot. " Very beautiful book, rare in beautiful condition " (Carteret, III, p. 410), the counterpart of Don Quixote by the same artist (see n°s 46 - 48). Some foxing. From the library of Raymond Claude-Lafontaine, with bookplate.
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