Argumens de plusieurs autres qui n’ont point été imprimées, & d’un Catalogue de toutes les Comédies representées depuis le
rétablissement des Comediens Italiens. Nouvelle Èdition, Corrigée & tres-augmentée, & à laquelle on a joint les Airs des Vaudevilles
gravez à la fin de chaque Volume. Tome Premier [Neuviéme]. A
Paris: Chez
Briasson, ruë Saint Jacques, à la Science.
m. dcc. xxxiii. [-
m. dcc. xxxvi.]
Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roi. [1733-1736.]
PQ1231 .I5 N6 1733
9 vol. 12mo, each volume with the general title and a half-title. Volume I has an engraved title by J. B. Scotin after Coypel, the
Disposition de ce Recueil on the back of the half-title, and contains the Avertissement du Libraire, a Catalogue alphabetique des Comédies representées
par les Comédiens Italiens, jusqu’a l’année 1732, the Extraits ou Argumens de plusieurs Pieces, soit Italiennes, soit Françoises,
qui n’ont pas été imprimées; ausquelles on a joint les Vaudevilles de toutes les Pieces qui ne sont pas imprimées dans ce
Recuëil, and at the end the Vaudevilles du Nouveau Theatre Italien, 50 leaves with musical notation engraved on both sides
by Denise Vincent; Vol. II-VIII contain the plays with the list contained in each volume on the back of the half-titles, each play with a separate
title-page with the imprint of
Briasson and many with his woodcut device, separate signatures and
pagination, each volume with engraved music at the end by Denise Vincent (7, 3, 3, 2, 6, 2, 2 and 1 leaf respectively), publisher’s
advertisements on various leaves. The general titles are dated
1733 in all volumes except the last which is dated
1736. The dates in the imprints of the several plays vary from
1729 to
1737.
Not in Barbier.
Not in Graesse.
Not in Brunet.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
18.0.
The history of the Comédie Italienne is given at the beginning of the first volume, from its first invitation to Paris from
the Duc d’Orleans in 1716, when the company numbered eleven actors and actresses, beginning with Luigi Riccoboni, the famous
actor and himself the author of the history of the Italian theatre in his own country.
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11
The same [i.e. Molière]
Fr.
8. v.
12
mo.
[4
th. wanting.]
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 3, as above.
MOLIÈRE,
Jean Baptiste Poquelin de.
Les Oeuvres de M. de Molière, nouvelle édition, reveuë, corigée et augmentée . . .
Paris: par
la Compagnie des libraires associés (impr. de
M. David),
1710.
7 vol. only [wanting the 4th], 12mo, engraved portrait by Audran after Mignard, plates “imitées de Brissart.” A copy of this edition was not obtainable for examination. The information is obtained from the description in the catalogue
of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Volume I contains the Préface of La Grange; la Vie de M. de Molière by Jean-Léonor Le Gallois, sieur de Grimarest; La Critique de la Vie de M. de Molière; Addition à la Vie de M. de Molière, ou Réponse à la Critique, by Grimarest; and two plays, L’Etourdi and Le Depit Amoureux. Volumes II to VIII contain the plays, and the last volume has in addition
L’Ombre de Molière by G. Marcoureau de Brécourt; Extraits de divers auteurs, contenans plusieurs particularités de la vie de M. de Molière et des jugemens sur quelquesuns de ses ouvrages; Recueil des épigrammes, épitaphes et autres pièces en vers, faites par divers
auteurs, sur M. de Molière et sur sa mort. The contents of Volume IV, lacking in Jefferson’s copy were Le Sicilien, Amphitryon, L’Avare, George Dandin,
La Gloire du dôme du Val-de-Grâce.
Quérard VI, 178.
Lacroix,
Bibliographie Molièresque, 299.
Catalogue of the Molière Collection in Harvard College Library, 15.
Bibliothèque Nationale.
Catalogue des Ouvrages de Molière, 25.
A set of Molière in 8 volumes was bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt, by John March of Georgetown on March 7, 1805, at a cost
of 5 dollars. If this were the set so bound, it was perfect at that date.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière, 1622-1673 (originally Jean Baptiste Poquelin), French dramatist.
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