Penguin 1953. Very Good. Moliere. The Miser and Other Plays: The Would-Be Gentleman That Scoundrel Scapin The Miser Love's Best Doctor Don Juan. NY: Penguin 1953. 246pp. Small 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with creased spine and yellow pages. Penguin paperback books
Grant Richards. Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Includes:TartuffeDon Juan Love's the Best Doctor Grant Richards hardcover
Boston: Little Brown and Company 1909. Auteuil Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Six volume set uniformly bound in red cloth with tan spine labels. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. Limited to 1000 extra illustrated sets this being set number 455. Frontispieces in each. Gilt top foredge. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of each volume. Bump to the bottom of the spine of volume 4. A handsome set. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
Hardback. Very Good. Eight volumes. Parrallel text in French and English translation by A.R. Waller on facing pages. John Grant. Edinburgh. 1907. Black and White illustrations after Leloir. Red cloth spine with orange cloth-covered boards. With bookplate by British politician William Robert Wellesley Viscount Peel. Very Good covers lightly scuffed; interiors clean and tight. hardcover
New York:: The Athenaeum Society 1894. publisher's gilt half calf and marbled sides t.e.g. Some light rubbing and use to bindings; tight and sound. . 8vo. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. The Athenaeum Society, unknown
London: John Watts 1739. The master of French comedy First complete English translation of Molière's collected works with the original French text printed on the opposite page. This influential translation made by the English naturalist Henry Baker the playwright James Miller and the schoolmaster Martin Clare "remains one of the most sober and faithful" Findlay p. 111 and was reprinted numerous times. During 14 years of activity as an actor and playwright in Paris Molière 1622-1673 transformed French comedy through use of an intensely physical comic method which has "little recourse to technical resources and gives full scope to the prowess of the actor" Barham & Brandon p. 757. Molière's work allowed French farce to become "a satiric commentary on the society of his time and a penetrating exploration of eternal human foibles and obsessive attitudes of mind. In his hands their absurdity never ceases to amuse" ibid. p. 757. This publication "more complete than that of 1732" trans. from Brunet III 1802 expands Watts's previous Select Comedies 1732 with the addition of 14 more plays a famous life of the author by the French playwright Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre and a new dedication. The illustrations appropriately placed at the beginning of every comedy were designed by Hogarth Coypel Rysbeck Boucher Hambelton Dandrige and Van der Gucht. 10 vols duodecimo 163 x 93 mm. Portrait frontispiece in vol. I and 31 engraved plates. Contemporary calf spines with raised bands compartments ruled in gilt red morocco lettering-pieces and brown calf numbering-pieces covers bordered with a double gilt fillet blue silk bookmarkers. 19th-century ownership stamp of Armand Harembert possibly the French medical author to front free endpaper of vol. III; vol. X with upper margin of front free endpaper clipped to remove early ownership inscription closed tear to rear endpaper. Extremities rubbed with some minor peripheral loss to leather occasional spots of worming to tender joints and inner hinges book blocks remaining firm occasional light offsetting and sporadic faint marks to contents overall remarkably crisp and clean. An attractive set presenting well in a contemporary binding. Lowndes VI p. 1582; Brunet III p. 1802. M. Barham & J. R. Brandon The Cambridge Guide to Theatre 1995; B. Findlay Frae Ither Tongues: Essays on Modern Translations Into Scots 2004. hardcover
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