Accession number:
PML 138877-81
Published:
A Amsterdam : Jaques [sic] le Jeune [i.e. Daniel Elsevier] , 1675.
Description:
5 v. ; 14 cm. (12mo)
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987
Notes:
"Collective factice"--Guibert.
Made up of remainders of separate plays and some newly published plays printed at Amsterdam with the imprint "Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris". Each play has separate t.p. with printer's mark, and separate paging and signatures. Each volume has general t.p. dated 1675.
PML copy: 6 plays dated 1675 (Sganarelle, L'amour medecin, Amphitryon, George Dandin, Les fourberies de Scapin, and Psiché); one play (Les intermèdes du Malade imaginaire) dated 1673; 19 dated 1675. Le facheux is dated 1679, and so is added Le Malade imaginaire : comédie (preceded by another version dated 1674). Plays dated 1679 are apparently part of the Elsevier ed. of 1679.
Added engraved t.p. in v. I.
Binding:
Bound as a set with PML 138882: Molière. Les oeuvres posthumes. Amsterdam : Le Jeune, 1684. Red morocco, gilt., by Hardy-Mennil.
Provenance:
Génard (bookplate), Edna Holbrook Barger (engraved bookplate dated 1904), Gordon N. Ray.
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