Prosper Jolyot de CRÉBILLON

Collected edition commissioned by Louis XV following the success of Catilina, containing Crébillon's 9 tragedies and his academic discourses, without Le Triumvirat, which appears only in certain copies. This is the first collected edition of the dramatist's works, published under the author's supervision.

Two volumes bound as one in marbled calf, spine with five raised bands richly decorated with small gilt floral tools, triple gilt fillet border on boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt inner dentelle, red edges. Discreet restorations to the joints, corners, and top spine-end, with some loss to the gilt tooling at...

First edition of this tragedy first performed at the Comédie française on April 29, 1726. It had been nine years since the playwright had produced a play and Pyrrhus was a great success.
Contemporary binding in full speckled calf, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons, double blind fillet frame on boards, gilt roulette on cuts and headcaps, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges red.
Last endpaper restored with a paper strip.
Very rare autograph inscription signed by the author "à Monsieur / Monsieur de Fayolle de la part de son humble et très obéissant serviteur Crébillon" ["to Monsieur / Monsieur de Fayolle from his...

New edition for Les fils ingrats by Piron. Mahomet by Voltaire is the very rare counterfeit published the same year as the original. First edition of La Mérope françoise, avec quelques petites pieces de litterature, and of L'ecole des meres by Crébillon. La Lettre a M. Norberg is a new edition.
Contemporary glazed brown full calf binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Red morocco title-label. 2 wormholes at head. Joint cracked at upper joint at foot, same at lower joint. Corners heavily bumped and worn. One black stain on upper board at foot. First title page bearing multiple crossed-out signatures. Trace of pale dampstain from p...

New edition.
Contemporary full blonde calf binding, smooth spine lined with slightly faded red morocco, decorated with gilt arabesques and crosshatch patterns, gilt dentelle border on covers, gilt striping on edges and headcaps, all edges yellow speckled with red.
Corners slightly bumped. Foxing mainly on endpapers and first and last leaves of each volume.

First edition, quite rare.
Full light calf binding from early 20th century, handsome pastiche of a contemporary binding. Decorated raised spine. Triple fillet frame on boards. Red morocco title-label. Decorative gilt board-edges and roll on leading edges. 18th-century endpapers preserved. The lower margin of the title page, missing (the owner's name was removed), has been filled with modern paper. A hole in the lower right margin on pp. 301 and 302. An amusing old annotation (probably from the 18th century) in ink in the lower margin of the publisher's warning: "foutu sot".
Collection of satirical and erotic poetry attributed to a certain Busca (some pieces are by him), who...

Edition illustrated with 10 figures drawn and engraved by Peyron.
Full speckled blonde sheep bindings, smooth spines ornately decorated with gilt compartments, one tiny wormhole to the head of the spine of the second volume, red Russian morocco title and volume labels with slight rubbing, gilt roulettes on the headcaps, frames of gilt dentelles and tools, light scratches to the boards, gilt friezes and tools on the leading edges, two corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary bindings.
Handsome copy, free from foxing, attractively housed in decorative contemporary bindings.