189. COLLE (Charles). Journal historique ou mémoires critiqu - Lot 189

189. COLLE (Charles). Journal historique ou mémoires critiques et littéraires sur les ouvrages dramatiques et sur les evenemens les plus memorables, depuis 1748 jusqu'en 1772 inclusment. Paris, Imprimerie bibliographique (A. Barbier), 1805-1807. 3 vols. in-8, xxiv, 492 p. ; iv, 532 p., [2] f. (scene), 8 p. (catalog), 607 p., half-basin with smooth spine (period binding). First edition of the Memoirs, widely used as a first-hand source on eighteenth-century literary and theatrical life, they nevertheless contain some inventions, modifications and concealments by the author, notably concerning the genesis of Guimond de la Touche's tragedy Iphigénie en Tauride. Binding rubbed with spotting and slight loss of leather, edges and corners worn, some foxing. Enclosed: ETIENNE (Charles-Guillaume) & MARTAINVILLE (Antoine). Histoire du théâtre français. Paris, Barba An X (1802). 4 vol. in-8, viii, 200 p. ; 220 p. ; 225 p. ; 236 p., buff half-calf. Decorated with frontispiece portraits. Fair condition: ink stain on first 3 leaves of first volume, halo on volumes II and III, small worm bite in margin of several leaves of 3rd volume.