[VOLTAIRE]. 8 tragédies, 1772-1793, published in Toulouse, b - Lot 160

[VOLTAIRE]. 8 tragédies, 1772-1793, published in Toulouse, by Brouilhet, of which 6manquentà BEGENSCO. Collection in-8°. ● Sémiramis. Tragedy in five acts and in verse. [...] Nouvelle édition, conforme aux représentations du Théâtre Français. Toulouse, Brouilhet, 1786. 52 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Tancrède. Tragedy in five acts. [...] New edition conforming to the in-4° edition given by the Author. Id. 1785. 56 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Irène. Tragedy in five acts and in verse. Id. 1784. 39 pp. [Bengesco, I, 303]. ● Mérope. Tragedy in five acts and in verse. [...] Nouvelle édition conforme aux représentations du Théâtre Français. Id. 1786. 44 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Mahomet, ou le Fanatisme, Tragédie en cinq actes. [...] New edition conforming to the in-4° edition given by the Author. Id. 1791. 48 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Brutus, Tragedy in five acts and in verse. [...] New edition. Id. 1793. 48 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. ● Les Pélopides, Tragedy. Conforms to the in-4° edition given by the Author. Genève et Paris, Valade, 1772. 41 pp. [The last leaf is bound at the end of the collection. Bengesco refers to 64 pp.; our edition has 41]. ● Adélaïde du Guesclin, Tragédie. Toulouse, Brouilhet, 1784. 48 pp. [This edition is missing from Bengesco]. Ivory half vellum, mute spine with 4 raised bands (contemporary binding). The collection includes various plays of the period, as well as RACINE's Esther and Athalie, and CORNEILLE's Polyeucte. La Fausse Agnès, ou le Poète campagnard, comedy in three acts by NERICAULT-DESTOUCHES, from scene 7 act I, which was inserted between the first two and last quires of Gaston et Bayard, tragedy by BELLOY, the plays thus being truncated. Binding rubbed.