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MOLIÈRE, JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN DE. Les Oeuvres. 30 engraved plates by Jean Sauvé after Pierre Brissart. 8 volumes. 12mo, 157x88 mm, 19th-century red morocco by Pouillet, spines darkened; contents washed with residual toning, repair in blank lower margin of plate for Les Précieuses Ridicules in Volume 1. Property of the descendants of Mary S. Collins. Paris: Denys Thierry et al., 1682
first complete and first illustrated collected edition, including 6 previously unpublished plays. Second state of the plates for Tartuffe, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and Les Fourberies de Scapin, first state of the rest; issue of Volume 7 with censored text of Don Juan; Volume 8 has second state of pages 74 and 89-90, and first state of pages 178-79 and 190. Guibert II, 609-50; Tchemerzine (1977) IV, 827.
