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Rare and sought-after – Moroccan leather binding by Chamboll…
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Rare and sought-after – Moroccan leather binding by Chamboll…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
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Rare and sought-after – Moroccan leather binding by Chambolle-Duru
RACINE (Jean)
The Works of Racine. Paris, Barbin, 1676.
2 volumes in-12: 5f., 364pp. (frontispiece and 5 plates) / 7f., 324pp., 2f. - 5f., 74pp. (frontispiece and 5 plates); illustrated with 2 frontispiece half-titles, the first of which was engraved by Sébastien Leclerc after Le Brun, and 10 separate plates by Chauveau.
Red morocco leather bound, signed CHAMBOLLE-DURU, spine with decorated raised bands, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, double gilt fillet on the edges, minor signs of wear, gilt interior edging, gilt edges. A fine copy.
First and very rare collected edition, with the title of Volume I revised. The second volume contains the play *Phèdre* for the first time, though not listed in the table of contents. This is therefore the second state described by Tchemerzine.
Comprises 10 plays: *La Thébaïde ou Les Frères Ennemis* – *Alexandre Le Grand* – *Andromaque* – *Britannicus* – *Les Plaideurs* – *Bérénice* – *Bajazet* – *Mithridate* – *Iphigénie* – *Phèdre & Hippolyte*.
In 1676, Racine amended the preface to *Alexandre* and had the two folios comprising it, as well as the two introductory folios of Volume I, bound in hardback; he had Volume I reprinted with the date 1676 in order to harmonise the edition (Tchemerzine IX, 355).
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