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...
First edition with some parts of the text in first edition, bearing a statement of second edition; the second volume appears here for the first time. A full-length portrait of the author and a facsimile of an autograph.
Contemporary half cherry red glazed calf bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated with two stamps and Restoration-style roulettes, fillets. Rubbing to headcaps and joints.
Elegant binding, handsome copy.
De Fongeray is the collective pseudonym of Hygin-Auguste Cavé and Adolphe Dittmer (this name appears on the title label). The work is illustrated with a portrait of the so-called de Fongeray, which is actually just a...
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...
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...
First edition of the French translation established by mademoiselle R. du Puget.
Half navy blue shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with double black compartments at whose centers the gilt monogram of the great bibliophile Roger de Cormenin is repeated five times, joints lightly rubbed at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a slight nick to one leading edge, speckled edges.
Some foxing.
Provenance: from the library of Roger de Cormenin, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and also the intimate friend of Gustave Flaubert.
