Jean Racine / Moreau le Jeune [gravures] - Théâtre complet de Jean

Jean Racine. Complete Theatre of Jean Racine. Paris, Verdière, 1817, vi-405 pp., 432 pp., 412 pp., 428 pp., 410 pp. 5 volumes in-8 (210x140 mm), half bound, smooth decorated spine, title and volume labels in black morocco (bindings of the period). Worn and rubbed boards and spine, head cap of volume V partially shaved, the title pages of volumes I and II have been swapped by the binder. Interior fresh, rare foxing. New edition adorned with illustrations after the drawings of Moreau and with the commentary of M. de La Harpe Volume I: Life of Racine, The Thebaid, Alexander the Great - one frontispiece and 2 plates hors texte Complete in 5 volumes Volume II: Andromache, The Plaintiffs, Britannicus - 3 plates hors texte Volume III: Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridates - 3 plates hors texte Volume IV: Iphigeneia in Aulis, Phèdre - 2 plates hors texte Volume V: Esther, Athaliah, Various Poems, Poems attributed to Racine, Excerpts and prose translations - 2 plates hors texte

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