MONTFLEURY [Antoine JACOB]
Les oeuvres de Monsieur de Mont-Fleury, contenant ses pieces de theatre
Chez J. Van den Kieboom • Gerard Block • Adrien Van Dorsten|à La Haye [The Hague] 1735|9.50 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
New edition, illustrated with two frontispieces and 12 figures before letters, unsigned. A title vignette repeated on both volumes. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full glazed blonde calf bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated with small repeated fleurons in compartments. Red morocco title and volume labels. Decorative gilt board-edges and on leading edges. Edges gilt. The figures are slightly shorter at the outer margin. Joints partially restored. Fine copy, in good binding.
Son of the illustrious actor Montfleury, and like him attached to the Hôtel de Bourgogne, his first plays were farces around 1660, then producing about one play per year, he evolved toward
€400