Oeuvres complettes de Marivaux

First collected edition complete of the works of Marivaux. A portrait by Saint Aubin in a frame by Marillier as frontispiece.
Publisher's bindings in full contemporary blonde marbled calf. Spines with raised bands decorated in gilt compartments, gilt rolls at foot. Title and volume labels in tawny morocco. Triple gilt rule framing the boards. In the first volume, the tissue guard has caused browning to the first third of the title page opposite and to the second leaf. Lower joint of volume 1 narrowly split at head and foot, small lack at foot. Volume II: lack to lower joint at head, lack at foot. Volume III: joints split at head. Volume IV: lacks at head and foot. Volume VII: small split to upper joint at head, and a lack at head. Volume IX: lack at head. Volume X: small split to upper joint at head. Volume XII: small lack at foot. Evidence of rubbing, particularly to corners, and some corners slightly bumped, but overall fine set with relatively fresh paper, with some signatures slightly more yellowed.
The only early edition bringing together the theatrical and narrative works. As indicated by Tchemerzine (VII, 437-438), the 1825-1830 edition is less complete, only one other text by Marivaux not included in this edition will be published as supplement, in 1922: La Provinciale; moreover, the 1825 edition does not reproduce all the works contained in the 12th volume. This edition brings together rare fictional works: Les Effets surprenants de la sympathie, Le Spectateur françois, L'Indigent philosophe, Le Cabinet du philosophe, Homère travesti, Le Don Quichotte moderne, L'Éducation d'un prince, Le Miroir, La Voiture embourbée, Le Télémaque travesti... The edition brings together 51 texts by the author, including the entirety of his theatrical works.