MOLIERE Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit :

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MOLIERE Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit :
Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Bound in half brown vellum half in-12, spine with 5 nerves, horizontal borders and fleurons, gilt head (20th century binding). At Claude Barbin Paris au Palais 1673. Second edition and new and last printing during the author's lifetime. 139 pages, privilege of December 31, 1670, same date as the original but rights here transferred to Claude Barbin. No completion of printing. Small scattered wetnesses on a few pages. Molière complaining about the business of his traditional bookseller Jean Ribou, he will have his last comedies sold by two new booksellers, Le Monnier and Barbin, including this masterpiece of the bourgeois gentilhomme.
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