The contemporary working copy of the 1815 Library of Congress Catalogue has the manuscript annotation,
2d. vol. missing. All the later catalogues call for the first volume only. The first volume is erroneously entered in the manuscript list
of missing books made after 1815.
William Congreve, 1670-1729, English dramatist. He published the first collected edition of his works in 1710, in three volumes octavo. The
best edition is usually considered to be that of Baskerville, published in Birmingham in 1761, the same year as the Glasgow
edition.
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Oeuvres complettes de Beaumarchais. sc. Memoires et pieces de theatre.
3 v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 21. Oeuvres Complettes de Beaumerchais, 3 v. 8vo.
BEAUMARCHAIS,
Pierre Augustin Caron de.
Oeuvres Complettes de M. de Beaumarchais.
Amsterdam:
Merkus,
1775.
3 vol. 8vo. A copy was not seen; the information is obtained from the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale and from Cordier.
Vol. I and II contain the Mémoires and are so entitled:
Mémoires de M. de Beaumarchais. Tome I. [-II] with an engraved frontispiece and portrait. The title of Vol. III reads:
Oeuvres complettes de M. de Beaumarchais. Tome Troisième contenant ses Pièces de Théâtre et sa lettre modérée sur la chute et la critique du Barbier de Seville.
This edition not in Quérard and not in Brunet.
Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale IX, 442.
Cordier,
Bibliographie des Oeuvres de Beaumarchais, no. 466.
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 1732-1799, French dramatist, merchant and politician. For his political activities (with which the Mémoires are concerned).
see also no. 3286. [punct.
sic--
Ed.]
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Oeuvres dramatiques de Mercier.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 22, as above.
MERCIER,
Louis Sebastien.
Oeuvres dramatiques de M. Mercier. Tome Premier. [-Second] A
Amsterdam: chez
Changuion &
E. Van Harrevelt Libraires. A
Paris: chez
Le Jay, Libraire, rue Saint Jacques, au Grand Corneille.
m. dcc. lxxvi
. [1776.]
2 vol. 8vo. 198 and 170 leaves, both volumes with half-titles, engraved frontispieces and plates after Marillier by various engravers.
Quérard VI, 61.
This edition not in De Ricci-Cohen.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
9.0.
For other works by Mercier, see the Index.
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Jones’s Sacontala.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 151. [Jones’s Sacontala 4to.] In C. 35, No. 63.
For this, see no. 4435.
25
Comedies.
French.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 23, as above.
1839 Catalogue, page 620, no.
J. 22. Comedies, in French, 8vo, viz: La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro, par Beaumarchais; Amsterdam, 1785.--Le Jaloux,
par Rochon de Chabannes; Paris, 1785.--La Femme Jalouse, par Desforges; Paris, 1785.--Les Deux Billets, par Florian; Paris,
1780.--Fanfan et Colas, par Madame de Beaunoir; Paris, 1784.--Blaise et Babet, par Monvel; Paris, 1785.
Six French comedies bound together in one volumes as follows:
BEAUMARCHAIS,
Pierre Augustin Caron de.
La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro, comédie en cinq actes et en prose. par M. Caron de Beaumarchais. Représentée pour la première fois à Paris, par
