[CHILLIAT, Michel]. - Lot 93

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[CHILLIAT, Michel]. - Lot 93
[CHILLIAT, Michel]. Les Souffleurs, comedy. Paris, Vve de Ch. Coignard, C. Cellier, 1694. In-12, (3)-143 pp. and 1 pp. errata, fine margins. 19th-century brown morocco, ornate ribbed spine, gilt caissons, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, inner gilt garland, gilt edges (spine and cushion rubbed). First edition in delicate morocco signed Brany, a Parisian bookbinder of the last third of the 19th century. Only one entry in the CCFr. A fine copy of the text, almost as published. Comedy currently attributed to Michel Chilliat (the BnF has doubts), a bookseller and printer in Lyon and then Paris (until ca. 1697-1698), using some of the main characters of the Commedia dell'arte - Harlequin, Mezzetin, Pierrot, Colombine... - to mock the alchemists then known as the souffleurs. Copy with the last leaf in second state, i.e. including the name and address of Nicolas Leclerc as seller of the tunes in this comedy. Briffaud, Répertoire du théâtre français imprimé au XVIIe siècle, 9430.
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