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Works. New edition. Paris, 1734.
Six volumes in-4 (203 x 286 mm), frontispiece, (6)-lxx-330 pp. and 4 pl. (lacking R1 - pp. 129-130 - bound in vol. III)| (6)-446 pp. and 6 pl.| (6)-442 pp. and 6 pl. (lacking 8 ff. of quires N and O| additional R1 - pp. 129-130 of vol. I)| (6)-420 pp. and 6 pl. (+ additional R1 and R2 in fine, differing from previous R1 and R2 in engraved header and lettering)| (6)-618 pp. and 5 pl.| (6)-554 pp. and 6 pl.
Contemporary lemon morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with flowers, tan morocco title-pieces, triple gilt fillet on the boards, gilt arms in the center, decorated inner edges, gilt edges on marbling. And: a modern lemon morocco volume, smaller in size (207 x 278 mm), containing the missing quires N and O of volume II, from another copy.
"Boucher's masterpiece, as an illustration" (Cohen).
It includes a portrait engraved by Lépicié after Coypel, 33 plates by Boucher engraved by Laurent Cars, a repeated fleuron on each title and 198 vignettes and culs-de-lampe, several repeated, by Boucher, Blondel and Oppenord, engraved by Joullain and Laurent Cars. Copy of the first printing with the error to " Comteesse ", volume VI, p. 360.
A superb copy in lemon morocco from the library of Madame Sophie, fifth daughter of Louis XV. The gilded arms in the center of the boards are those of Mesdames de France, daughters of Louis XV: Madame Adélaïde, Madame Victoire and Madame Sophie. The works in their libraries were bound by Fournier in Versailles and by Vente, and differ only in the color of the morocco (OHR, pl. 2514, iron no. 5). Quentin-Bauchart recalls that the lemon shade was chosen by Madame Sophie (1734-1782), Madame Adélaïde having adopted the red morocco, and Madame Victoire the green. Moreover, "Madame Sophie having bequeathed part of her library to the Marquise de La Porte de Riants, née Colbert de Croissy, her books have become rarer than those of her sisters". (Les Femmes bibliophiles de France, II, p. 125 ff.) On the second cover of volume III is a handwritten note in ink and a crossed-out signature: "Je vous aime ma chère graille de tout mon cœur Stanislas (?)", which Quentin-Bauchart considers to be in the hand of the Polish king Stanislas I, Madame Sophie's grandfather. Today this inscription is not considered autograph. Copies of Boucher's Molière in morocco with arms are rare. Cohen mentions only three in private hands.
PROVENANCE
Library of the Marquis de Certaines, Château de Villemolin (Nièvre)| Pierre Bérès (label).
REFERENCES
Cohen 712| Quentin-Bauchart, II, p. 176, n° 21.
Six volumes in-4 (203 x 286 mm), frontispiece, (6)-lxx-330 pp. and 4 pl. (lacking R1 - pp. 129-130 - bound in vol. III)| (6)-446 pp. and 6 pl.| (6)-442 pp. and 6 pl. (lacking 8 ff. of quires N and O| additional R1 - pp. 129-130 of vol. I)| (6)-420 pp. and 6 pl. (+ additional R1 and R2 in fine, differing from previous R1 and R2 in engraved header and lettering)| (6)-618 pp. and 5 pl.| (6)-554 pp. and 6 pl.
Contemporary lemon morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with flowers, tan morocco title-pieces, triple gilt fillet on the boards, gilt arms in the center, decorated inner edges, gilt edges on marbling. And: a modern lemon morocco volume, smaller in size (207 x 278 mm), containing the missing quires N and O of volume II, from another copy.
"Boucher's masterpiece, as an illustration" (Cohen).
It includes a portrait engraved by Lépicié after Coypel, 33 plates by Boucher engraved by Laurent Cars, a repeated fleuron on each title and 198 vignettes and culs-de-lampe, several repeated, by Boucher, Blondel and Oppenord, engraved by Joullain and Laurent Cars. Copy of the first printing with the error to " Comteesse ", volume VI, p. 360.
A superb copy in lemon morocco from the library of Madame Sophie, fifth daughter of Louis XV. The gilded arms in the center of the boards are those of Mesdames de France, daughters of Louis XV: Madame Adélaïde, Madame Victoire and Madame Sophie. The works in their libraries were bound by Fournier in Versailles and by Vente, and differ only in the color of the morocco (OHR, pl. 2514, iron no. 5). Quentin-Bauchart recalls that the lemon shade was chosen by Madame Sophie (1734-1782), Madame Adélaïde having adopted the red morocco, and Madame Victoire the green. Moreover, "Madame Sophie having bequeathed part of her library to the Marquise de La Porte de Riants, née Colbert de Croissy, her books have become rarer than those of her sisters". (Les Femmes bibliophiles de France, II, p. 125 ff.) On the second cover of volume III is a handwritten note in ink and a crossed-out signature: "Je vous aime ma chère graille de tout mon cœur Stanislas (?)", which Quentin-Bauchart considers to be in the hand of the Polish king Stanislas I, Madame Sophie's grandfather. Today this inscription is not considered autograph. Copies of Boucher's Molière in morocco with arms are rare. Cohen mentions only three in private hands.
PROVENANCE
Library of the Marquis de Certaines, Château de Villemolin (Nièvre)| Pierre Bérès (label).
REFERENCES
Cohen 712| Quentin-Bauchart, II, p. 176, n° 21.