The Plays of Molière in French. With an English Translation and Notes by A. R. Waller and an Introduction by George Saintsbury. Illustrated with thirty-one Etchings after Leloir.

  • Molière
  • Edinburgh: John Grant 1907

£400

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Description

NO 17 OF 200 COPIES, 8 vols., 8vo, pp. xlviii, 283, [1]; [viii], 396; [viii], 392; [viii], 336; [viii], 435, [1]; [viii], 347, [1]; [viii], 376; [viii], 332 + 3 frontispieces per volume and 69 further plates. Contemporary quarter crushed brown morocco, brown cloth boards, spine lettered and tooled direct in gilt, top edges gilt. Cloth boards just a little soiled. Numbered in ink to the limitation-page.

Notes

An attractive, limited-edition set of the plays of Molière in facing-page translations, with all the plates in triplicate on different paper. The limitation page advertises 'a duplicate set of Etchings, printed on Japanese Vellum', which this set has, along with a set of the illustrations printed on standard paper, and unusually, a third set printed on India-paper and mounted.

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