From the collection of fifteen engravings, including the Title of 1666 and other works in the definitive state. Collection 238/250 with works by Maurice Leloir, Edmond Hedouin; with contributions by others. The collection represents both plays.

The collection is provided with complete provenance dating to its issue (including copy of original issuance certificate), the collection title page, publisher"s title page, a list of engravings and certificate of authenticity.

Melicerte: Title - Maurice Leloir, as delineator, translates the original work of 1666.

Melicerte: Title of 1666 - Maurice Leloir, as delineator, translates the original work of 1666.

Melicerte: Dramatis Personé - Maurice Leloir, as delineator, translates the original work of 1666, from the French, a listing of the cast of characters.

Melicerte: Act I, Scene I - Daphne, Eroxene, Acanthe and Tyrene. Daphne (to Acanthe): "You please me most when far away."

Melicerte: Act I, Scene V - Lycarsis, Myrtil, Erozene and Daphne. Beautiful engraving with heavy embossing in the plate. Lycarsis: "Hullo, Myrtil, hullo! Will you come back, you wretch"

Melicerte: Act II, Scene III - Melicerte and Myrtil: "Accept here on the spot the pledge, which I give you."

Melicerte: Act II, Scene III - Melicerte and Myrtil in a woodland scene. Myrtil (kneeling before Melicerte): "I just now, charming Melicerte, took a little prisoner, which I have kept for you, and of which I may perhaps become jealous of one of these days."

Melicerte: Act II, Scene IV - In front of a colonnade of a ruined temple, which is seen through a copse of olive trees, are the two young lovers surprised by the old shepherd.

Mélicerte: Act II, Scene VII - Fini - Nicandre, Myrtil, Acanthe and Tyrene. Nicandre (walking in fornt of the others), looks back: "They are important and mysterious events. Yes, the king has come to seek Mélicerte in these spots, and they say that formerly her mother, Bélise, of whom all Tempe believed Mopse to be the brother.... But, I have undertaken to look for her everywhere. You shall know about it by-and-by."

A Comic Pastoral: Title - Upon a stone is seated the rich shepherd Lycas, clasping his hands in beatific joy, and listening, with delight to the incantations of the two magicians who sing: "How fair is he! How pretty and polished!"

A Comic Pastoral: Title of 1666 - Maurice Leloir, as delineator, translates the original work of 1666.

A Comic Pastoral: Dramatis Personé - Maurice Leloir, as delineator, translates the original work of 1666, from the French, a lisitng of the cast of characters.

A Comic Pastoral: Scene XIII - Philene to Lycas: "No, I will be last." Includes a full page of dialog from the play.

A Comic Pastoral: Scene XII - Lycas and Philene, the two lovers of the shepherdess, press her to decide which of them she prefers.

A Comic Pastoral: Scene XV - Fini - The Gypsies: "Let us seek all day naught but what pleases us; let both us be earnest about it; let pleasures be our business..."