BEAUMARCHAIS (Charles-Augustin Caron de). Set of 6 works bou - Lot 23

BEAUMARCHAIS (Charles-Augustin Caron de). Set of 6 works bound in 4 volumes. L'Autre Tartuffe, ou la Mère coupable, moral drama. ÀParis, chez Maradan, l'andeuxeuxième [1793-1794]. In-8, stains and handwritten notations crossed out in ink, bound with the copy of Le Mariage de Figaro below. --LeBarbier de Séville, ou la Précaution inutile, comédie. ÀParis, chez Ruault, 1775. In-8, 114pp, half-garnet morocco bradel; first cover stained (binding circa 1900). Published in the year of the original. Rare, absent from the bibliographies of Henri Cordier and Avenir Tchemerzine and Lucien Scheler. --LeBarbier de Séville, ou la Précaution inutile, comedy. ÀParis, chez Ruault, la veuve Duchesne, 1785. In-8, stain on title, bound with the copy of Le Mariage de Figaro below (xixesiècle binding). --LesDeux amis, ou le Négociant de Lyon, drama in five prose acts. ÀParis, chez la veuve Duchesne, Merlin, 1770. In-8, threaded half-basane (nineteenth-century binding). First edition. Includes 7pp. of printed notated music. Provenance: Catulle Mendès's nephew, Gaston de Bar (1866-1948), who was deputy director and head of the bureau des travaux historiques et scientifiques et des sociétés savantes at the French Ministry of Education (bookplate). --Eugénie, drame [...] avec un Essai sur le drame sérieux. ÀParis, chez Merlin, 1767. In-8, bradel boards with marbled paper (binding circa 1900). First edition. 5 copper-engraved plates hors texte after drawings by Hubert-François Bourguignon d'Anville dit Gravelot. One of these plates is taken from another copy and trimmed shorter. --La Folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro, comédie. AuPalais-Royal, chez Ruault, 1785. In-8, black half calf, threadbare; upper headband restored with tape (19th century binding). First edition.