DELATTRE (André).Livre Rare Book
Pieces de Theatre: A Sammelband of Seven French Theatrical Works
1757896F50Paris; Yverdon: Duchesne; Francois le Breton; 1757-1765 . Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A smart sammelband of seven mid-eighteenth century theatrical works largely comedic in tone but with a vanishingly scarce tragedy titled 'Marcellus ou Les Persecutions' also present. In the original French.A sammelband of seven French theatrical works the majority being comedies from popular playwrights.The first work is a 1757 edition of 'La Coquette Corrigee' by 'Delanoue' the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Simon Sauvé de La Noue.The second work is a very 1763 edition of 'Le Droit du Seigneur' by Voltaire published in the same year as the unauthorised first single volume edition of the five act play.The third play is Charles Simon Favart's popular comedy 'L'Anglois a Bordeaux'. A very scarce copy published in the same year as the play was first performed.The fourth comedy is a scarce 1765 early edition of Charles Simon Favart's comedy 'Isabelle et Gertrude ou Les Sylphes Supposes'. Published in the same year as the first edition but with different pagination and lacking the six sheets of music present in the first edition.The fifth work is a posthumously published 1758 edition of playwright Philippe Nericault Destouches's 'Le Philosophe Marie' which was first produced in 1927.The sixth work is a 1765 edition of Jean-Francois Regnard's 'Le Joueur' first performed in 1696.The final work is the very scarce tragic drama 'Marcellus ou Les Persecutions: Tragedie Chretienne' by Ponce Dehaye-Polet. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work from a writer about whom little is known.With the loosely inserted bookplate of Irish philosopher Rev. Francis Hutcheson known as one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment.A fascinating collection of French dramas and comedies. In a full calf binding. Small loss of leather to back strip head. Joint heads starting with boards firmly held. Loosely inserted bookplate. Internally firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type with light handling marks throughout. Very Good Duchesne; Francois le Breton; hardcover
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