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LE SAGE, Alain René (1668-1747). Le Diable Boiteux. Paris: Ernest Bourdin, 1840. 8° in 4s (252 x 163mm). Half-title. Wood-engraved frontispiece on chine appliqué , title-vignette and numerous vignette illustrations, all after Tony Johannot Contemporary red morocco, elaborately tooled and blocked in gilt, g.e. FIRST EDITION THUS. Cf. Ray French p.257. -- J.B.Poquelin de MOLIÈRE (1622-1673). Oeuvres. Paris: Paulin, 1835-1836. 2 volumes, 8° (265 x 170mm). Half-titles. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, title vignettes and vignette illustrations, all after Johannot. (Occasional browning.) Contemporary purple half morocco, spines gilt (extremities a little rubbed). Carteret III, 410-412; Ray French 181 ('Never were author and illustrator more entirely in harmony'). -- Antoine François PRÉVOST, called Prévost d'Exiles (1697-1763). Histoire de Manon Lescaut. Paris: Ernest Bourdin, [1839]. 8° (256 x 163mm). Half-title. Two wood-engraved section titles printed in gold; tinted wood-engraved frontispiece; 18 wood-engraved plates on chine appliqué before letters, numerous illustraions, all after Johannot. (Mounts of plates and a few other leaves spotted.) Red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., by Badiejous. Carteret III, 505-506; Ray French 183. -- and 3 other works, in 4 leatherbound volumes, each with illustrations by Alfred or Tony Johannot (Miguel de CERVANTES Saavedra. ...Don Quichotte de la Manche. Paris: 1836-1837. 2vols., 8°; Casimir DELAVIGNE. Oeuvres Complètes. Paris: 1836. 8°; J.W. von GOETHE. Le Faust. Paris: 1847. 8°). (8)