posted on September 26, 2000 05:07:12 AM new
Louis Moland appears to be an editor active in the last half of the 19th century, based on the sale listings at addall.com. So you probably do not have a 1732 book, but one from sometime in the mid to late 1800s (I found his stuff as early as 1856 and into the 1880s)
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Edited to add ... Garnier was producing later editions of Moland's works in the 1920s, so it might not even be a first edition. You will have to check out the French in the front of the book VERY carefully to get which edition it is. The selling point is the drama school connection! Got through it looking for any notes by famous students.
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He was editor of the complete works of Voltaire, from this statement at "the digital Voltaire"
Texts yet to appear in the Oxford edition are reproduced either from a source produced under Voltaire's supervision or from the last complete edition of Voltaire's works, Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. Louis Moland, Paris, Garnier (1877-1885).
(and this edition of Moliere's works)
7 vols. Commentary by Louis Moland. Illus. with steel-engraved plates. 9x5-1/2, quarter tan calf & marbled boards, elaborately gilt-tooled spine, red & blue-green morocco spine labels, raised bands, marbled edges. Paris: Garnier Frères, 1863.
posted on September 26, 2000 05:19:12 AM new
1877-1882 Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire
Louis Moland
(Cette ancienne édition est remplacée progressivement par celle de la Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 17 volumes parus et 50 volumes de Correspondance)
Garnier
1879
La divine comédie
Illustrated by Yan' Dargent; translated & edited by Artaud de Montor
Published in Paris by Garnier Frères
xxiii, 592, xij p. (37 plates) ; 28 cm. (8o)
French trans. Nouv. ed. With a preface by Louis Moland. In addition to the plates, each canto has vignette at beginning & end.
1873
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(The illness continues)
In this year (presumably in the second half of the year):
Release of Contes Danois traduits pour la première fois par MM. Ernest Grégoire & Louis Moland, illustrés d'après les dessins de M. Yan Dargent. The publishers are Garniers Frères, Paris. Volume II appears in 1875 with an independent title and introduction, the title being Nouveaux Contes Danois. Vol. I includes the later fairy-tales and stories, starting with "Isjomfruen" (The Ice Maiden). Vol. II is a mixture of earlier and later texts.
In the introduction to vol. I, Louis Moland points out that the imagination and the fairy-tales of HCA hide "un sens profond" (a sense of the profound) or "une idée philosophique" (a philosophical point of view) beneath the surface, and that the tales are therefore for both children and adults.
The introduction to vol. I is followed by a presentation of HCA's biography with quotes from Contes de ma vie (i.e. the German autobiography from 1847).
In a letter dated 5th January 1874 to Nicolai Bøgh, HCA writes and comments on the edition that it has been:
"Translated with much feeling; the introduction by Moland is interesting and for me highly flattering. The pictures [...] are distinguished by naturalness and beauty; they are immediately appealing; only my portrait is a failure".
Maui, I am seeing his name on translations of Hans Christian Anderson(died 1875), so I think he was active in 1800s. I will check the bnf later(when I can get in, it's doing an ebay). Still might go well, considering the Ouspenskaya connection!
