Paris : Nelson 1933. Edition Lutetia. Hardcover. Good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 5v ; ill. ; 17cm. Notes; Publie sous la direction de Emile Faquet. Subject; French literature. Paris : Nelson hardcover
Paris: La Compaignie Typographique 1933-1936 . One of 88 copies. Six large quarto volumes 11 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches. Publisher's tan cloth with central gilt emblems to covers vertical red leather labels on spines ruled and lettered in gilt. With red silk page-markers. Title pages printed in black and red scene numbers printed in red throughout text. Minor extremity wear some light rubbing to a few of the spine labels else a near fine set.A beautiful edition of Moliere printed by A.A.M. Stols of Holland and printed on special paper made by J. Barcham Green and Son. La Compaignie Typographique hardcover
Paris: Furne et Cie 1854 Vol.1 - xii 798pp gilt edged. Contains nineteen works most being preceded by an engraved plate. Vol.1 - 781pp gilt edged. Thirteen works plus poetry with plates after Desenne and Vernet. French language text. Some light random foxing otherwise very good throughout. Furne et Cie hardcover
Paris: Henri Plon 1862. Complete in 8 volumes. Books measure 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Bound in period green soft leather gilt rule lines and title lettering top gilt edges marble endpapers. Colour faded from spines. leather very lightly rubbed. All bindings in very good clean firm condition. Internally pages clean and bright throughout. A very nice clean set in attractive period binding. . Full-Leather. Very Good. Square 8vo. Henri Plon Hardcover
Paris: Garnier Frères 1864. Hardcover. Very Good -. 7 volumes frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. 1 17 leaves of plates: genealogical table; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment of each with gilt-tooled volume number in third and gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbeld. Green ribbon bookmarks. Published in 1863 and 1864. Makes up the first 7 volumes of the publisher's series Chefs-d'Oeuvre de la Littérature Française. Plates are signed: "G. Staat del. F. Delannoy sc." A heavy set; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; minor loss at head or tail of several spines; discoloration at upper edge of first 50 pages and faint dampstain at lower corner of final 80 pages of vol. 5; dampstain at upper corner of first third of vol. 6; otherwise text and plates are clean and bright. Garnier Frères hardcover