Jean-François REGNARD

First collected edition of Regnard's works. This edition reproduces the text from the original editions but without the title page. The first edition of Le Légataire universel, dated 1708, and La critique du légataire, also from 1708, were added at the end of volume II. The edition contains an engraved half-title, a frontispiece for each play in volume I, a frontispiece for Democrite and one for Les Menechmes. It appears that the one for Les folies amoureuses is missing. Le légataire universel has a frontispiece and a title vignette. According to Brunet, these works appeared in 1714 with a title page dated 1708.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine...

New edition, one of 80 copies printed on grand vélin raisin. Work illustrated with 5 portraits as frontispieces to the first four volumes and 37 figures hors texte.
Half Russian leather bindings with corners in plum, spines with four raised bands set with fleurons, gilt fillets and roulettes, headcaps and joints very lightly rubbed, marbled pebbled paper boards, some corners slightly bumped, marbled pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns. Contemporary or very slightly later bindings.
The two frontispiece portraits in the first volume are engraved after Hyacinthe Rigaud, the other plates being engraved by Leroux, Müller, Longueuil etc., after Borel, Desenne or Moreau le Jeune. Some...

The finest and most complete of the editions of Regnard, when it contains the fifth and sixth volumes, printed in small numbers (as Cohen indicates), and which are rarely found together with the first four. It is illustrated with a portrait of the author by Rigaud engraved by Tardieu and 11 fine figures by Moreau and Marillier, engraved by Delignon, Duponchel, etc. The remarks and prefaces are by Garnier.
Contemporary full blonde porphyry and glazed calf bindings. Smooth decorated spines, roll tooling at head and foot. Green morocco title and volume labels. Triple fillet frame on boards. Slight lack to one title label. Rubbing to headcaps and edges. One wormhole at foot of volume II...

New edition, with some parts in first edition, carefully collated with the first editions and expanded with a large number of variants. Half red calf bindings, spines with four raised bands adorned with gilt dots and gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, traces of discoloration to margins of some boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary Romantic bindings.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece to the first volume.

Some minor foxing.

The finest and most complete edition of Regnard, when it contains the fifth and sixth volumes, printed in small numbers (as indicated by Cohen), and which are rarely found bound with the first four. These two volumes have not been added to this copy.
It is illustrated with a portrait of the author by Rigaud engraved by Tardieu and 7 fine plates by Moreau and Marillier, engraved by Delignon, Duponchel, etc. The notes and prefaces are by Garnier.
Contemporary full sheep bindings in polished mottled leather signed with a Mouillié label (probably slightly later). Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons in dotted lozenges. Morocco title and volume labels in red. Decorative...

New edition decorated with a frontispiece portrait of the author after Rigaud engraved by Tardieu, as well as 11 copperplate engravings after Moreau le Jeune and Marillier.
Contemporary half chocolate brown shagreen binding, Jansenist spine with five raised bands, top edges gilt.
Some scattered foxing.

The finest and most complete edition of Regnard, when it properly contains the fifth and sixth volumes, printed in small numbers (as Cohen indicates), and which are rarely found together with the first four.
It is illustrated with a portrait of the author by Rigaud engraved by Tardieu and 11 fine figures by Moreau and Marillier, engraved by Delignon, Duponchel, etc. The remarks and prefaces are by Garnier.
Contemporary full tree calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 stars and fillets. Red morocco title and volume labels. Framing fillet on covers. Lacking at foot of volume 1 and at head of volume 3. Joints of volume 2 cracked. Despite some defects, quite a handsome...

New edition, with some parts in first edition, carefully collated with the first editions and augmented with a large number of variants.
Half green sheep bindings, spines slightly faded with four fine raised bands set with friezes and gilt fillets as well as wavy lines and blind typographical motifs, navy sheep title and volume labels, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary English Romantic bindings signed by Charles Hering.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece to the first volume.
Handsome copies almost entirely free from foxing, elegantly bound by one of the greatest English binders of the period.

New edition. Occasional foxing, small angular lacks to the covers. Rare.