MOLIÈRE. Le Misanthrope preceded by a Dialogue aux Enfers by Anatole France and followed by La Conversion d'Alceste by Georges Courteline. Paris : Édition d'art Édouard Pelletan, 1907. - In-4, 281 x 208 : XX pp, (2 ff.), 177 pp, (3 ff.), 14 plates, printed cover. Dark green half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Noulhac). Beautiful edition printed by the Imprimerie nationale with the Grandjean du Roi typeface, illustrated with 26 compositions by Georges JEANNIOT, including 14 etchings out of the text, and 12 wood-engraved figures by Ernest Florian, at the head of each chapter and in the cul-de-lampe. Edition announced at 350 copies, whereas the prospectus mentions 310. This is one of 265 on Arches laid paper (n° 178), signed by the publisher. Copy enriched with the following pieces: - FRANCE (Anatole). Le Tombeau de Molière. Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1908. Booklet in-4 printed at 160 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, signed by the publisher (n° 45). This is the text composed by Anatole France for Madame Bartet on the occasion of the 286th anniversary of Molière's birth. It is illustrated with a portrait of the playwright by Jeanniot, engraved by Ernest Florian. - Prospectus for the publication of the book. - ORIGINAL DRAWING BY JEANNIOT on japanese paper, representing Célimène, dedicated and signed by the artist : " à mon ami et à Madame Janin ". - Handwritten copy on a blank sheet of a part of act I scene III of the Misanthrope, followed by an excerpt from André Chevrillon's speech delivered in New-York on April 25, 1922 about Molière's bicentenary. - Copy in Édouard Pelletan's hand of Anatole France's Tombeau de Molière, on 4 pages in-8 in sheets. - L.A.S. from Édouard Pelletan to Julia Bartet, January 13, 1908, 3 pages in-8: "You will have tomorrow morning, before noon, the Tomb of Molière. You will like it, I am sure. France will not remove the first lines of Racine's epistle: they are too pretty and, moreover, they are due to you, the most perfect interpreter of Racine's heroines at this time. - Modern handwritten copy of Nicolas Boileau's epistle VII to Mr. Racine, 1 1/2 pages in-12 - Press clipping giving a reproduction of a photograph of Jusserand, Maurice Donnay and André Chevrillon, pasted on a blank sheet . This clipping, and another one which has disappeared, have faded. - L.A.S. from Édouard Pelletan to Clément-Janin, 12 December 1904, one page in-8: "The Misanthrope, I think, will be done. I have drawn up the plan for the book. I am very happy with it. I think it is very harmonious and well done. Beautiful copy in Noulhac binding. Spine faded. Transfers of the etchings on the facing leaves.