Gay-Lemonnyer, III, 339 ; Riffaud, 250 ; Soleinne, I, 1337.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition, very rare, of this charming illustrated theatre play.<\/p>\n
The three engravings are in fine state, as described by Soleinne : The plates are not worn as in the 1674 edition, which is usually quoted in bibliographies” (see Soleinne).<\/p>\n
Guillaume Marcoureau, known as Br\u00e9court (1638?-1685) “author-actor, started in 1658 in Moli\u00e8re’s troupe, where he played the role of Alain (\u00c9cole des femmes). It was he whom Moli\u00e8re charged in the Impromptu de Versailles with his defense against those who accused him of making cryptic plays. Br\u00e9court left him, however, and moved to the H\u00f4tel de Bourgogne; there he succeeded in the tragic and the comic. He died, it is said, of a ruptured aneurysm while performing his comedy of Timon (February 1685)” (see Grente).<\/p>\n
A very good copy.<\/p>\n
Provenance : Viollet le Duc (book plate, the copy was not included in the auction sale of his collection).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
12mo (135 x 84 mm) 6 nn.ll., 35 pp., 3 engraved folding plates. Ninenteenth century red morocco signed and dated E. Ni\u00e9dr\u00e9e – 1846, triple gilt filet, spine gilt with raised bands, inner dentelle, gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":80608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1450,1255],"class_list":{"0":"post-80615","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-first-edition","8":"product_tag-theatre-dance","9":"pa_auteur-brecourt-guillaume-marcoureau-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Guillaume Marcoureau BRECOURT","chapeau":"Written by a commedian of Moli\u00e8re The Viollet Le Duc copy","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Jean Guignard, 1666","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n