Item #58351 L'École des Mœurs du Libertinage, Drame ... par M./ de Falbaire de Quingey ... [bound with:] Le Fabricant de Londres, Drame ... par M. de Falbaire ... [bound with]: L'Humanité, ou le Tableau de l'indigence, triste drame par un aveugle tartare [ Randon de Boisset]. Charles George Fenouillot de Falbaire.

L'École des Mœurs du Libertinage, Drame ... par M./ de Falbaire de Quingey ... [bound with:] Le Fabricant de Londres, Drame ... par M. de Falbaire ... [bound with]: L'Humanité, ou le Tableau de l'indigence, triste drame par un aveugle tartare [ Randon de Boisset].

Paris: Veuve Duchesne; Delalain; and [?], 1776; 1771; and [1761].

Price: $450.00


About the item

Gravelot. First editions. xxiii, [1], 115, [1]; xii, 116; [iii]-xvi, 95 pp. Second play illustrated with 5 engraved plates after Gravelot; title page of third play lacking. 1 vols. 8vo. Later quarter calf and marbled boards. Very good. Barbier II: 869.

Item #58351

Two farces by the late 18th-century dramatist. Title page of the first book, apparently a presentation copy, is inscribed in a contemporary hand: "de la part de l'auteur", and of this title, OCLC locates only editions of 1777, but 1776 is the earliest edition in the Biblithèque Nationale.

The second piece, Le Fabricant de Londres, was frequently reprinted, and appeared in 1771 in two forms: this illustrated edition with fine plates after Gravelot, and another without illustrations.

As for the third piece, Barbier attributes it (following Quérard) to a certain "financier célelebre" ny the name of Randon de Boisset, and the collation appears to be the same as the 1761 edition in the BN. Interestingly, a collected edition of the works of Denis Diderot (Londres, 1773) included this title in its contents - without Diderot's permission.

An interesting compilation of of French drama from a period of revolutionary ferment.