Les Oeuvres De Monsieur Moliere. MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin).

Nouvelle Edition.

Four engraved frontispieces and 30 engraved plates. Titles printed in black and red.

Four volumes. 12mo. [140 x 82 x 135 mm]. [1]f, 532pp; [1]f, 540pp; [1]f, 574pp; [1]f, 610pp. Bound in contemporary calf, the covers with a blind double fillet border and small bud tool in the corners. the spines divided into five panels with raised bands flanked by blind double filelts, lettered in gilt in the second on red goatskin labels, the edges of the boards tooled with a blind roll, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Headcaps chipped with short crack at foot of vol.3, a little rubbed).
Liège: chez J. F. Broncart, Imprimeur en Souverain-Pont, à la Nouvelle Imprimerie, 1703

Each play has its own title-page and an accompanying plate, except for L'Ecole Des Femmes in vol.1 which lacks the plate, though there is no indication that it was ever present. A number of the plate captions have been cropped at the foot and there is some occasional light browning. It is a good copy in what appears to be a contemporary English binding. Each volume has the ink signature of John Holroyd (1818-1881), a Primitive Methodist from Yorkshire. He married Mary Brockman Miller in 1847 and they had six children. It was given to Stephen Clark in 1957.

A reimpression of the edition by Lagrange, with some changes, including the abridged life of Moliere. It is printed with characters from Elzevir. Library Hub locates copies at Cambridge, Edinburgh and Oxford.

Stock no. ebc7963