THE BEAUX STRATAGEM : A Comedy

by Jean Émile Laboureur, George Farquhar, Bonamy Dobrée

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First edition

Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929. Limited first edition thus, a small-press production of the popular 18th-century comedy. Fine. Item #55183 This Restoration-era comedy was just the sort of work that attracted fine-press literati of the 1920s. Laboureur was a respected French illustrator of the '20s, specializing in engraving and etching; among his students was Marie Laurencin.

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