Pieces de theatre: Le fils naturel, ou Les epreuves de la vertu. Comedie en cinq actes et en prose [1760]; Adelaide du Geusclin, tragedie [1761]; La partie de chasse de Henri IV, comedie en trois Actes & en Prose [1766]; etc. Tapa dura - 1760

Amsterdam: Pierre Erialed, 1760. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A collection of pre-Revolutionary French theatre plays, bound together, each with separate title pages and pagination, with titles continuing from above: "Le roi et le fermier, comedie en trois actes, Melee de morceaux de Musique" [1765]; "Isabelle et Gertrude, ou Les sylphes suposes, comedie en une acte" [1766]; "La clochette, comedie en une acte et en vers" [1766]. Various publishers. The Diderot (Le fils naturel) was his first play, originally published in 1757, appears here in an early printing (and is the second play in this volume, published as noted above). Contemporary gilt full calf binding with raised bands. Speckled edges and marbled endpapers. Gilt red label. Some wear to covers at hinges -- still tight -- and to extremities. Some loss to leather at head of spine and upper corner of rear board. Sewn endbands with silk page marker… Leer más