12
the same [i.e. Moliere]
Fr.
6. v.
16
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 4, as above.
MOLIÈRE,
Jean Baptiste Poquelin de.
Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Molière.
Paris et
Amsterdam,
1783,
4.
6 vol. 16s. A copy of this edition has not been located; it is not listed in the general bibliographies, nor in the bibliographies
of the works of Molière.
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13
Oeuvres de theatre de Diderot.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 5, as above.
DIDEROT,
Denys.
Oeuvres de Theatre de M. Diderot . . . A
Amsterdam.
m. dcc. lxviii
. [1768.]
2 vol. in 1, 12mo. A copy of this edition was not obtainable. An edition printed in
Amsterdam in 1772 was by Marc-Michel Rey, and included: De la Poésie
Dramatique. A mon Ami M. Grimm.
This edition not in Quérard.
Not in Dieckmann.
Jefferson bought his copy from Samuel Henley; it is included in the list of the books from Henley’s library purchased by him
appended to his letter of March 3, 1785, and is in the separate list made by Jefferson of the books in this purchase.
For the
Oeuvres Philosophiques de Diderot
, published by Rey in 1772, see no. 1262.
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14
Lilly’s plays.
16
s.
There is no entry for Lilly’s plays in any Library of Congress catalogue after that of 1815, though the entry is not marked
missing in the contemporary working copy of the Catalogue of 1815, and is checked as though the book had been received.
There is no means of knowing exactly what Jefferson intended by
Lilly’s plays, 16s. The only English dramatist of that name was John Lilly [now usually written Lyly], 1554?-1606. He was the author of eight
plays, six of which were collected in 1632 by Edward Blount, and printed for him by W. Stansby in one volume duodecimo, with
the title
Six Courte Comedies . . . Written by the onely Rare Poet of that Time, the Wittie, Comicall, Facetiously-Quicke, and vnparalleled
John Lilly, Master of Arts . . .
It seems probable that this was the
Lilly’s plays, 16s in Jefferson’s library.
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Beaumont & Fletcher.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 29, as above.
BEAUMONT,
Francis and
FLETCHER, John.
Comedies and Tragedies written by Francis Beavmont and Iohn Fletcher Gentlemen. Never printed before, And now published by the Authours Originall Copies . . .
London: Printed for
Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and for
Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in S
t Pauls Church-yard.
1647.
PR2420 1647
First Edition. Folio. 441 leaves, engraved frontispiece with portrait of Fletcher by W. Marshall and
Latin verses by J. Berkenhead.
STC B51581.
Pforzheimer Catalogue, no. 53.
Francis Beaumont, 1584-1616, and
John Fletcher, 1579-1625, English dramatists. This was the first collected edition of their plays, and included all but the
Wild Goose Chase
, first published in 1652. The editor of this edition was James Shirley, 1596-1666, himself the author of a number of plays. For a full account of this edition see the Pforzheimer catalogue as
above.
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