OGER-BLANCHET
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CORNEILLE , Pierre, François de BOISROBERT, Jean de ROTROU, …
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242
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CORNEILLE , Pierre, François de BOISROBERT, Jean de ROTROU, …
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
CORNEILLE , Pierre, François de BOISROBERT, Jean de ROTROU, Guillaume COLLETET and Claude de L'ESTOILE] - The Blind Man of Smyrna. S. l. n. d. (Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1638). Pet. in-12 (in-24), frontispiece, (2) ff. 92 pp. printed in small type, frontispiece engraved on copper by Daret, after Charles Le Brun, brown calf, gilt thread on covers, spine ribbed, gilt tr.
PICOT n°94. First edition in this small format published the same year as the original in-4. One of the comedies, the collective work of the ''Cinq auteurs'' that Richelieu had undertaken to have performed under his direction: Boisrobert, Colletet, Corneille, L'Estoile and Rotrou. These authors divided up the acts of the plays for which the cardinal had drawn up the plans. However, Corneille's participation in L'Aveugle de Smyrne seems doubtful.
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