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several old books are lined up in a row on a white surfaceseveral old books are lined up in a row on a white surfaceseveral old books are lined up in a row on a white surfaceseveral old books lined up in a row on a white surfacesix books of shakespeare and shakespeare written by william shakespearesix red books with gold emblems stacked on top of each otherseveral old books sitting on top of each other on a tableseveral open books sitting on top of each other on a tableseveral old books stacked on top of each other on a table
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202 - Set of 15 books:
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Set of 15 books: - Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Volumes 2 to 8. Translated by M. Guizot, eighth edition, Paris: Librairie académique Didier et Cie, Booksellers and Publishers. Volumes 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7: 1873. Volume 5, seventh edition, 1868, and Volume 8: 1875. - Popular Classics Collection: * The Chroniclers, first series: Villehardouin–Joinville, by Antonin Debidour, Inspector-General of Secondary Education. A volume illustrated with several engravings. Paris: H. Lecène and H. Oudin, publishers, 1892. * *Les Chroniqueurs*, second series: Froissart–Commines, by Antonin Debidour, former pupil of the École Normale Supérieure, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Nancy, and laureate of the Académie Française. A volume illustrated with several engravings. Paris: H. Lecène and H. Oudin, publishers, 1890. - L. Hartmann, teacher at the Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Grand-Lebrun, Bordeaux; E. Dutreuilh, Headmaster of the École Supérieure Saint-Seurin, Bordeaux, *French Grammar for all Secondary School Classes*, 8th edition, no. 68, published by the school. - J. Racine, Complete Plays with literary commentary and a selection of classical notes by Mr Félix Lemaistre, preceded by a note on the life and theatre of Racine by L.-S. Auger. Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères. - Beaumarchais, dramatic works and memoirs, illustrated with 3 drawings by Gravelot based on 18th-century originals, and 5 engravings by Saint-Quentin based on the original edition of *La Folle Journée* (1785), 6 previously unpublished drawings by Slom and 2 portraits of Beaumarchais. Collection of Great French and Foreign Classics. - Florian, works: *The Fables*, illustrated with a portrait of Florian by Queverdo, 80 drawings by Granville, 40 end-piece illustrations based on a popular 18th-century edition, and engravings by Demoulin. Theatre – Pastoral Poems – Tales and Poems illustrated with drawings by Marillier and Queverdo. Published especially for the Magasins du Bon Marché by Paul Brodard, printer in Coulommiers. - Dante Ali Ghieri, *The Divine Comedy*, illustrated with 100 engravings based on the edition published in Venice in 1757 and dedicated to the Empress of Russia, Elisabeth Petrovna. With a portrait of Dante. Translated by Artaud de Montor. Collection of Great French and Foreign Classics. - Corneille, works based on the 1764 edition, illustrated with drawings by Gravelot, eighteenth-century colophons, and three portraits of Corneille. Volume II. Published especially for the Bon Marché department stores by Paul Brodard, printer in Coulommiers.
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