417 - Molière, JBP de. Oeuvres. Nouvelle Édition. 6 vols. Paris, Prault, 1734. With 1 engraved portrait by Lepicié after Coypel, 6 (repeated) title vignettes, 33 copperplate engravings after Boucher by Cars and 198 engraved (mostly repeated) vignettes and culs-de-lampe after Boucher, Blondel and Oppenord by Joullain and Cars. 4to. Contemporary marbled leather bindings with rich spine and backstitching, gilt-tooled fillets on the covers, front and inner edges, and gilt edges (scuffed, bumped, spine joints slightly cracked in places).

Molière, JBP de. Oeuvres. Nouvelle Édition. 6 vols. Paris, Prault, 1734. With 1 engraved portrait by Lepicié after Coypel, 6 (repeated) title vignettes, 33 copperplate engravings after Boucher by Cars and 198 engraved (mostly repeated) vignettes and culs-de-lampe after Boucher, Blondel and Oppenord by Joullain and Cars. 4to. Contemporary marbled leather bindings with rich spine and backstitching, gilt-tooled fillets on the covers, front and inner edges, and gilt edges (scuffed, bumped, spine joints slightly cracked in places). Lewine 361; Cohen/Ricci 712; Sander 1368.- Second printing (= Volume 1: page 208 with 27 (instead of) 29 lines; Volume VI: page 360, line 12 corrected to 'Comtesse').- The complete six-volume edition of works from 1734, with the magnificent plates after Boucher from one of the most beautiful illustrated French works of the 18th century. 'Le chef-d'oeuvre de Boucher, comme illustration, c'est l'un des plus beaux livres de la première partie du XVIIIe siècle' (Cohen/Ricci).- Colophon in Volume VI dated 1733.- Inner hinges partly slightly cracked, paper browned to varying degrees due to the quality of the paper, partly slightly foxed or foxed.- Volume 1 with engraved bookplate by Paul Gavarni (!) for the famous writers (and later biographers of Paul Gavarni) Edmond and Jules Goncourt, above the bookplate with an autograph signature (?) by (Edmond) 'de Goncourt'.