L'Honnête criminel, ou l'amour filial, drame en cinq actes & en vers

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L'Honnête criminel, ou l'amour filial, drame en cinq actes & en vers

Les Deux avares, comédie en deux actes en prose...seconde édition
Le Fabricant de Londres, drame en cinq actes et en prose
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Illustrated by: Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773)
Engraved by: Louis Binet (French, 1744–about 1800)
Engraved by: Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739–1792)
Engraved by: Jean Charles Levasseur (French, 1734–1816)
Engraved by: Joseph de Longueil (French, 1730–1792)
Jean Baptiste Simonet (French, 1742–1813)
Author: Charles-Georges Fenouillot de Falbaire (French, 1727–1800/01)
Author: André-Ernest Modeste Grétry (French, 1741–1813)
Publisher: Joseph Merlin (French, 1718–1783)
Publisher: Delalain (firm) (18th century)
Printer: Louis Cellot (French, born in 1732?)

1768–71

Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 11 etching and engravings

Dimensions Overall: 21.2 x 13.5 x 4.1 cm (8 3/8 x 5 5/16 x 1 5/8 in.)

Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent

Accession Number37.1424

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsIllustrated books

Amsterdam, and Paris: Merlin, 1768; Paris: Louis Cellot, for Delalain, 1770-1771

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 390-391

Description(Amsterdam, and Paris: Merlin, 1768; Paris: Louis Cellot, for Delalain, 1770-1771) Octavo, three parts in one volume; [pt. 1] 58 leaves, plus 5 plates; [pt. 2] 47 ll., plus 1 pl.; [pt. 3] 66 ll., plus 5 pls.; contemporary gilt-stamped red morocco.

Dramatic illustrations.

ProvenanceWilliam A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.