Paris

First edition of these 102 plates heightened in colors.
Modern cream-colored paper boards with gilt floral motif by Thomas Boichot, black morocco title label to spine. Ex libris of the "Fashion Group of Paris" on pastedown. 
A little worming to first plate, the other plates very fresh.
A nicely bound copy. 

First collected edition.
Contemporary full blonde sprinkled sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with two tools and two compartments with grotesque designs, rouletted. Title and volume labels in red morocco. One wormhole to head of the first three volumes. Spines slightly faded. Fine copy, very fresh.

Most of the comedies given by the author quickly met with success, and even under the Revolution and the Terror, the author was not troubled, donning the uniform of commander of the national guard and providing verses for civic festivals. His works bring together 11 plays carried by a lively and alert style, precise, but with weak and loose plots. The fugitive poems are pieces often close to his comedies. The editorial project was carefully revised by the author, and we owe him some notes and prefaces and the variants of his first plays, the latter died the following year in 1806.
In fine, Les querelles des deux frères, ou la famille bretonne. Chez Duminil Lesueur. 1808. On the verso of the title page, a note from the publisher: "cet ouvrage termine le quatrième volume du théâtre complet de Collin d'Harleville ; il est placé immédiatement après les Poésies fugitives." ["this work completes the fourth volume of the complete theater of Collin d'Harleville; it is placed immediately after the Fugitive Poems."]

Second edition, after the original of 1644; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait; a headpiece and handsome initial letter on the first page of text, as well as tailpieces. Good impression.
Copy with quartered arms on the 5 compartments, with baron's helmet and mantling. The charges are relatively illegible, though one can distinguish the cross of Lorraine.
Contemporary full speckled sheep binding. Raised band spine decorated with arms. Gilt title. Double fillet frame on boards. Two corners rubbed. Small lacks along joints. A brown stain in margin on several leaves p. 446. Some worming. Good wide-margined copy (except top margin).
The preface mentions the author's age (91 years) and his manuscripts which he entrusted to a person to whom he was obligated, and who wished to publish them. The work thus brings together unpublished pieces by the author: Le Romain - De la Conversation des Romains - Consolation au Cardinal de La Valette - Réponse à deux questions ou Du caractère & l'instruction de la Comédie - Mécenas - Paraphrase ou De la grande Eloquence - Dissertation sur une Tragédie intitulée Herodes Infanticida - De la Gloire...

New edition. Printed in italics. Title page within a Renaissance engraved border.
Full red morocco binding, 18th century. Spine with raised bands richly decorated with small tools. Dotted fillet border on covers with corner tools and small tools. Decorative gilt board-edges. Edges gilt. Rubbing to joints and corners. Handsome contemporary binding. Fine copy.
The Pharsalia or Civil Wars (between Pompey and Caesar) is the only preserved work by Lucan, an unfinished epic poem in ten cantos.