Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)

Ouvres, 6 vol., first edition, half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cathelin after Mignaud in vol.1, 32 engraved plates by Moreau Le Jeune, occasional light spotting, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with poppies and wheat, boards and spine slightly rubbed, some head and tails frayed, marbled endpapers, 8vo, La Campagne des Libraires, Paris, 1773 (6)

***First edition published and annotated by Antoine Bret, one hundred years after the death of the playwright. Includes Life of Molière by Voltaire with a supplement by the publisher.