Les oeuvres de Monsieur de Crébillon; [à savoir: Idomenée 1711, Atrée et Thyeste 1709, Electre 1709, Rhadamisthe et Zenobie 1711]

Paris: chez Pierre Ribou (Quay des Augustins), 1713     ¶ FIRST COLLECTED ISSUE; comprising the second edition of Idoménée (1711) and the FIRST EDITIONS OF CRÉBILLON'S BEST PLAYS Atrée et Thyeste (1709), Electre (1709), and Rhadamisthe et Zenobie (1711), all gathered together by the original publisher and issued here with a collective titlepage 1713 priced 3 livres. (The individual titlepages are priced 20 sols = 1 livre each.) A fine portrait frontispiece was inserted sometime after Crébillon's death and before this copy was bound:<because the frt has red edges too, and anyway a wormhole runs right through the upper cover, frontispiece, and text through pt2 p6> The artist was Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788).   ||| Collation: 12mo (160 x 92 mm), four parts paginated (pi)[1-2], [i-vi], 1-66 [67-68]; [i-viii], 1-57 [58-60]; [1-9] 10-73 [74-76]; [i-vi], [1] 2-60 [61-64].  Illustration: Portrait frontispiece after La Tour by L. J. Cathelin (1739-1804).  Binding: Eighteenth-century full mottled calf, spine gilt extra, marbled endpapers, red edges. Condition: Very good, slight worming without loss.  References: Oxford/France (1995) 207; BN (Rothschild supplément 1257).  Provenance: (1) Pierre Dupuis (18th century), signature on collective title; (2) Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector (Christie's New York, 4-5 May 2005, nos. 8-14 &c).   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous..