Lot 122: [CONGREVE, WILLIAM]--HÉDELIN, FRANÇOIS, ABBÉ D'AUBIGNAC.

La Pratique du Theâtre. Paris: Antoine de Sommaville, 1657

4to, first edition, william congreve's copy with his signature, errata leaf at end, contemporary mottled calf, skilfully rebacked retaining original spine

Hodges No. 469; STC French 180.

William Congreve, signature on title; Duke of Leeds, bookplate and signature dated 1901

congreve's copy of the first edition of the classic seventeenth-century french treatise on the theatre.

Congreve also owned a copy of the first English translation of this work, published in 1684 (Leeds sale at Sotheby's, 3 June 1930, lot 298; Hodges No. 10). See also lot 293 in the present sale.