Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, 1882 In French. Complete in two volumes. Translates to: Complete Works of Moliere. With 10 color hors texte aquatint portrait plates. Laid in is the playbill for performance of two French plays in 1918 by the Department of French at Franklin College. Condition notes: Vol I: (viii), 803 numbered pp +1; Vol II: 823 numbered pp; HBs. Pages: clean, bright, tight, t.e.g., f.e. deckled, double comb marbled eps, color portrait frontis, ribbon markers; a few instances of pencil or ink marginalia or notes, previous owner's name inked to second free and page of each volume. Cover: original paper volumes beautifully rebound into quarter leather, French curl marbled paper over boards with red Morocco backstrip, five raised bands, gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, extrems moderately worn, both volumes have damp stain to tail that extends to just above the first raised band.

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Bookseller: Independent Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 038622
Title: Oeuvres Completes de Moliere
Author: Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Illustrator: Geoffry and H. Allouard
Format/Binding: Quarter Leather
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Librairie Garnier Freres
Place of Publication: Paris
Date Published: 1882
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: classic, fiction, french
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Morocco: Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Rebound: A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Tail: The heel of the spine.