[COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE]. Collection of works devoted to the Comédie Française: - HEYLLI (Georges d'). Journal intime de la Comédie Française (1852-1871). Paris: E. Dentu, 1879. - In-18, 187 x 133 : XII, 564 pp, (2 ff. last blank), printed cover. Red half-chagrin with corners, spine gilt, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (20th century binding). First edition. Copy on laid paper. Rubbing from use to the binding. Scattered spotting. - FEBVRE (Frédéric) - JOHNSON (T.). Album of the Comédie-Française. Dedicated to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Paris : Paul Ollendorff, 1880. - In-folio, 375 x 275 : (2 ff.), 100 pp, (4 ff.), 2 plates, 23 portraits, 1 facsimile. Half red morocco with corners, gilt fillets, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed (period binding). First edition of this album containing portraits and biographical notes of all the members of the Comédie-Française in 1880. It includes an engraved title, an out-of-text engraving of a monument in honour of Molière and Shakespeare after a drawing by Sarah Bernhardt, the epistle of Dumas fils to the Prince of Wales, reproduced in facsimile in the author's handwriting on blue paper, and 23 out-of-text portraits of the various members, engraved in etching by Abot. Under each portrait is a signed thought, reproduced in facsimile in the artist's handwriting. A copy of the journalist and dramatic critic Francisque Sarcey (1827-1899), bound in his cipher on the back. Cut on one edge of the first plate. Provenance: Francisque Sarcey, with his gilt figure on the spine. - BERNHEIM (Adrien). Around the Comédie-Française. Thirty Years of Theatre (5th series). Preface by Jules Claretie. Paris : Devambez, 1913. - In-8, 212 x 152 : XIX, 272 pp, (1 blank page), 27 portraits, printed cover. Red half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover preserved (period binding). First edition illustrated with 27 portraits out of text. Copy on japanese paper, enriched with this letter from the author to the writer and press owner Arthur Meyer: " To Mr. Arthur Meyer // A very faithful and devoted friendship // Adrien Bernheim // February 4, 1913" Good copy, well bound. - FABRE (Émile). The Comédie-Française. History of a Society of Actors through the centuries. Paris : Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Critique, [1942]. - In-8, garnet half-chagrin, spine gilt, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Kama Rok). First edition. One of 50 copies on heliophilic vellum from the former Müller paper mills (n° 2). Enriched with a letter from the author on the false title, the name of the addressee having been erased, as well as the following items, mounted on tabs: - photograph of the author, - 54 engravings of actors and playwrights, mainly from the 19th century, - L.A.S. from the playwright Adolphe d'Ennery addressed to Sarah Félix, Rachel's sister, - Biographical note on Miss Rachel by Pierre Rabot (8 pp.), - L.A.S. from Jules Claretie, 1904, 2 pages in-12, - notices on Maurice de Féraudy and Jean-Paul Mounet, each with a portrait of the artist, - L.A.S. from the playwright and scriptwriter Bernard Zimmer, 1 page in-4, - L.A.S. from the actress Mary Marquet, one page in-8, to Jacques Crépineau, - friendly postcard addressed from Greece to Jacques Crépineau, signed B. Brett. Rubbing to hinges and nerves.