BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre Augustin CARON DE).

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BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre Augustin CARON DE).
La Folle Journée, or The Marriage of Figaro. Comedy in five acts, in prose. S. l. [Kehl[, De l'Imprimerie de la Société littéraire typographique, et à Paris, Chez Ruault, libraire, 1785. In-8° (182 x 275 mm), midnight blue morocco, fillets, fine scrolls and large gilt lace with small bird's irons framing the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt edges (Trautz-Bauzonnet) LII + 199 + [II[ pp. Five figures engraved by HALBOU, LIÉNARD and LINGÉ, after SAINTQUENTIN. LARGE PAPER ISSUE, complete with errata leaf and enriched with a portrait of the author engraved by SAINT-AUBIN after COCHIN in the frontispiece and a DOUBLE ADDITIONAL SET OF ETHODS, ONE OF WHICH IS A PURE ETHODRA. Cohen, 124-125; Tchemerzine, II, 16 ("This edition ]... presents the same 5 figures drawn by St-Quentin for the original, but larger [and] more beautiful.")
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