27- COLLÉ (Charles). Théâtre de société. La Partie de chasse de Henri IV, comédie en trois actes & en prose, avec quatre estampes en taille-douce, d'après les dessins de M. Gravelot. Paris, veuve Duchesne, Gueffier, 1766, in-8 marbled fawn calf, smooth spine cloisonné et fleuronné, cherry title page, simple gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (period binding). Covers and corners rubbed, small stains on some pages.
First edition of this play, which can be read as a dramatic manifesto in favor of what was not yet called "Orleanism".
Hunting is obviously the pretext.
4 plates out of text, including a frontispiece engraved by Simonnot (but placed on p. 104 in our copy).
Cioranescu, XVIII, 20 080. Thiébaud, 887-88. Cohen, 246-47.
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27- COLLÉ (Charles). Théâtre de société. La Partie de chasse de Henri IV, comédie en trois actes & en prose, avec quatre estampes en taille-douce, d'après les dessins de M. Gravelot. Paris, veuve Duchesne, Gueffier, 1766, in-8 marbled fawn calf, smooth spine cloisonné et fleuronné, cherry title page, simple gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (period binding). Covers and corners rubbed, small stains on some pages.
First edition of this play, which can be read as a dramatic manifesto in favor of what was not yet called "Orleanism".
Hunting is obviously the pretext.
4 plates out of text, including a frontispiece engraved by Simonnot (but placed on p. 104 in our copy).
Cioranescu, XVIII, 20 080. Thiébaud, 887-88. Cohen, 246-47.
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