Author: Belloy, M. de (Pierre-Laurent Buirette, dit de)
Title: Oeuvres complettes (complètes) de M. de Belloy, de l'Académie françoise, citoyen de Calais. Edition avec figures. Tome Premier- Tome Premier - Tome Sixième (complete).
Description: Paris, Chez Cussac, Libraire, Chez Cussac, Libraire, 1787. 6 vols. 8vo (20,5x13,5 cm). Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt with ornaments, with ribbons, gilt borders; with red and green morocco title-labels; marbled endpapers; marbled edges. With engraved frontispiece-portrait and 6 other engraved plates by Giraud le Jeune, L. Petit, Patas, Maillet, Viguet and J. de Longueil after A. Borel. Collation: 445,(i:blank);(iv),387, (i:blank); (iv),427,(i:blank); 381,(iii:blank); (iv),469,(iii: blank) pp. The engravings are made for the historical tragedies Titus, Zelmire, Le Siège de Calais, Gaston et Bayard, Gabrielle de Vergy and Pierre le Cruel. The plays are accompanied with 'Recherches historiques', 'Observations', 'Note's -' and 'Letttres historiques', and 'Mémoires historiques'. Includes also 'Pièces fugitives', 'Poésies diverses' and 'La vie de l'auteur'. - A few leaves browned due to the quality of the paper, but over all splendid interior condition and marvelous bindings. . Gewicht/Weight: 2900 grs.

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