Three quarter dark red morocco over light red cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, gilt designs and titles to spines
1909 · Boston
by Moliere. Trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1909. Novelist's Library, edition de luxe. Three quarter dark red morocco over light red cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, gilt designs and titles to spines. Wear to head and heel of spines with minor loss, spine of volume one rubbed and a bit brittle, otherwise a very good tight handsome set.. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Limited edition of five hundred numbered sets. Introduction by Balzac. V. l. The misanthrope. Le bourgeois gentilhomme. V. 2. Tartuffe. Les précieuses ridicules. Georges Dandin. V. 3. The female pedants. The imaginary sick man. V. 4. The miser. Don Juan. The bores. V. 5. The school for wives. The school for husbands. Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. V. 6. The giddy pate. The forced marriage. The doctor in spite of himself, etc. First published in 1894-7 by The Athenaeum Society. (Inventory #: 22964)