Le Romant Comique by Scarron

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1677. Guillaume de Luyne. In 2 Volumes. French.

On a beautiful late afternoon in 1650, a group of traveling actors arrived in the town of Le Mans, to the astonishment of the townspeople, who were amazed by their most eclectic array of equipment. While "the animals ate, the author rested for a while and began to think about what he would say in the second chapter" before sweeping the reader away into the adventurous world of these theatrical people, Molière's contemporaries. Challenging anyone to discover the bag of tricks from which he draws "so many absurdities," or, as Giono would more charmingly put it, mastering "an art of magical color," this inspired storyteller launches into a hilarious tale, animated by a farcical and facetious verve, where merriment follows boisterous revelry, where actions cascade, and where blows rain down. 

Leatherbound with expected wear, corners bumped and rubbed exposing board. Light foxing. Frontispiece and title missing from book II. Well bound and in otherwise good condition.