- THEATER] - Collection of comedies. Paris, 1764-1775, 5 plays in one vol. in-8. Marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed with partitions and flowers, cherry title-piece, simple gilt fillet on the edges, red tr. Binding of the period. (upper headband trimmed, corners damaged). Interesting dramatic collection. It consists of : I. COLLE (Charles): La Partie de chasse de Henri IV, comedy in three acts & in prose, with four intaglio prints after the designs of M. Gravelot. Paris, veuve Duchesne, Gueffier fils, 1766, 120 pp. (the first six in roman), with 4 engraved plates out of the text. Cioranescu, XVIII, 20080. First edition. II. BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre Caron de): Le Barbier de Séville, ou La Précaution inutile, comédie en quatre actes. Represented & fallen on the Theatre of the Comédie-Française at the Tuileries, on the 23rd of February 1775. Paris, Ruault, 1775, [2]-19-95 pp. Cioranescu, 10373. One of several editions to date of the original, which is described in Tchemerzine-Scheler I, 487-88. III. DUBOIS-FONTANELLE (Joseph-Gaspard):] Ericie, or La Vestale, drama; in three acts in verse. London, s.n., 1768, 54 pp, one f. n. ch. Cioranescu, 25 524. First edition. IV. POINSINET (Antoine-Alexandre-Henri): Le Cercle, ou La Soirée à la mode, comédie épisodique en un acte & en prose. Represented for the first time by the Comédiens Français ordinaires du Roi on September 7, 1764. Paris, Duchesne, 1764, 71 pp. Cioranescu, 50739. First edition. V. SAURIN (Bernard-Joseph): Béverlei, tragédie bourgeoise, imitée de l'Anglois, en cinq actes et en vers libres ; représentée pour la première fois par les Comédiens François ordinaires du Roi, le 7 mai 1768. New edition, revised & corrected. Paris, veuve Duchesne, 1770, 96 pp. Cioranescu, 59 511. The first edition of this play adapted from Edward Moore's Gamester was published in 1768: here, the fifth act is entirely unpublished.