Pierre de MARIVAUX

First edition.

Full red morocco binding, round spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, slight rubbing on the caps, double frame of blind-stamped gilt fillets on the covers, with fleurons at the corners of the inner frame, edges slightly blunt, marbled paper endpapers and back covers, gilt edges and heads, very elegant 19th-century binding ‘a la Du Seuil’ signed Quinet on the first endpaper. 

Rare first edition of Chamblain de Marivaux's first theatrical success, The Surprise of Love, published four years before The Second Surprise of Love. This play, performed in the spring of 1722 before being published the...

First complete collected edition, published in Paris in 1781 in twelve volumes. For the first time, it brings together in a single set Marivaux’s plays, novels, periodical writings, and a number of prose works previously scattered across separate publications. Portrait of Marivaux as frontispiece, painted by Pougin de Saint-Aubin, within an ornamental frame designed by Clément-Pierre Marillier and engraved by François-Robert Ingouf, known as Ingouf le Jeune.

Uniform contemporary full mottled tan calf. Spines with raised bands, gilt compartments and rolls at foot; tan...

"Vous avez été leurs maîtres, et vous en avez mal agi ; ils sont devenus les vôtres, et ils vous pardonnent ; faites vos réflexions là-dessus." ["You have been their masters, and you have acted badly; they have become yours, and they forgive you; reflect upon this."] (Trivelin, final scene)

The rather rare first collected edition of these various works.

Contemporary binding in full marbled and glazed sheep. Decorated smooth spine. Havana morocco title and volume labels. Lacks to joints at head of volume I. Lack to upper joint at head of volume II and lacks at foot. Upper joint split at foot of volume II. Rubbing to joints, headcaps, edges and corners.
This edition contains Don Quixote moderne, L'Homère travestie ou L'Iliade en vers burlesques, L'éducation d'un prince, La voiture embourbée, Le miroir, Refléxions sur l'esprit humain, etc...

New édition. The 8 parts each have a title page. Title pages of the first part and the fifth in red and black. Novel first published between 1734 and 1736, the last three parts are apocryphal and appear here at Scheurleer in first edition.

Contemporary full brown calf bindings. Raised band spines ornate with fleurons and stars. Red morocco title labels, and brown morocco volume labels. Restorations to joints and headcaps. Scattered browning. Good copy.

Like La vie de Marianne, Le Paysan parvenu is based on memoirs, and the rise of a handsome young man of great wit, but poor and of peasant extraction. His qualities which will make him appealing in...