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Book/Printed Material Œuvres de Moliere Molière. Figures de Moreau / Figures de Moreau

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Title

  • Œuvres de Moliere

Other Title

  • Molière. Figures de Moreau
  • Figures de Moreau

Names

  • Molière, 1622-1673, author
  • Bret, M. (Antoine), 1717-1792, editor
  • Voltaire, 1694-1778
  • Mignard, Nicolas, 1606-1668, illustrator
  • Moreau, Jean Michel, 1741-1814, engraver
  • Beveridge, Catherine Eddy, 1881-1970, donor
  • Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner
  • Compagnie des libraires associés (Paris, France), bookseller
  • Chambolle-Duru (Firm), binder
  • Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Par la Compagnie des libraires associés, MDCCLXXIII [1773]

Contents

  • Tome 1. Vie de Molière, par M. de Voltaire. L'étourdi Le dépit amoureux. Les précieuses ridicules. Sganarelle. -- Tome 2. Don Garcie de Navarre. L'école des femmes. L'impromptu de Versailles. -- Tome 3. La princesse d'Élide. Les fêtes de Versailles, en 1664. Le mariage forcé. Don Juan, ou Le festin de pierre. L'amour médecin. Le misantrope. -- Tome 4. Le médecin malgré lui. Mélicerte. Pastorale comique. Le Sicilien, ou L'amour peintre. Le Tartuffe. Amphitryon. -- Tome 5. L'avare. George Dandin. Fête de Versailles, en 1668. M. de Pourceaugnac. Les amans magnifiques. Le bourgeois gentilhomme. -- Tome 6. Les fourberies de Scapin. Psiché. Les femmes savantes. La comtesse d'Escarbagnas. Le malade imaginaire. La Gloire du Val-de-Grâce.

Headings

  • -  France--Paris

Notes

  • -  Portrait by Mignard; 33 plates by Moreau; title vignettes.
  • -  Title pages printed in red and black.
  • -  Two irregularly paged cancels are inserted in t. 1, the cancelled pages being retained also in the volume; the order of pages is as follows in the copy: (1) p. 65-66, 67*-66* (cancel), 65-66 (cancelled text), 67-68, etc. (continuing text from p. 66*); (2) p. 77-78; p. 79-80 (cancelled text); p. 79-80, 81*-80* (cancels, continuing text from p. 78) "Dans les bons exemplaires ... il doit y avoir en double les pages 66, 67 et 81 du tome Ier." -H. Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle. 5. éd. 1886.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1672
  • -  LAC ael 2019-11-05 update (3 cards)
  • -  LAC ael 2021-06-17 update (2 cards)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-03-22 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 6 v. : ill., port. (engravings) ; 20 cm (8vo)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PQ1821 1773
  • PQ1821 1773 Copy 2 Illustrations only, bound in 1 volume with binder's title: Molière. Figures de Moreau. Complete set of the 33 plates with 33 proofs before letter and 19 trial proofs; duplicate set of the 6 vignettes, portrait of Molière in duplicate. To these is added another portrait of Molière and one of Moreau. In all 101 plates. Ex libris Cortlandt F. Bishop. Signed binding: Chambolle & Duru.
  • PQ1821 1773 Copy 3 Gift: Mrs. Albert Beveridge. 10-9-53.
  • PQ1821 1773 Copy 4 Gift: Genevieve G. Burton. Red morocco bookplate of Henri G. Burton on front pastedown of each volume.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 19008959

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Molière, Author, Voltaire, Nicolas Mignard, Jean Michel Moreau, Catherine Eddy Beveridge, Cortlandt F Bishop, Bookseller Compagnie Des Libraires Associés, Binder Chambolle-Duru, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Œuvres de Moliere. editeds by Bret, M [A Paris: Par la Compagnie des libraires associés, MDCCLXXIII, 1773] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/19008959/.

APA citation style:

Molière, ., Voltaire, Mignard, N., Moreau, J. M., Beveridge, C. E., Bishop, C. F. [...] Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Bret, M., ed. (1773) Œuvres de Moliere. [A Paris: Par la Compagnie des libraires associés, MDCCLXXIII] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/19008959/.

MLA citation style:

Molière, Author, et al. Œuvres de Moliere. ed by Bret, M [A Paris: Par la Compagnie des libraires associés, MDCCLXXIII, 1773] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/19008959/>.