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12 volumes 8vo (200 x 124 mm) of 2 un.ll (half-title and title), 428 pp. , 1 frontispiece, 2 plate for the volume I ; 420 pp. , 4 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume II ; 464 pp. , 2 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume III ; 478 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume IV ; 470 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume V ; 430 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume VI ; 404 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume VII ; 380 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume VIII ; 428 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume IX ; 344 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume X ; 386 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume XI ; 388 pp. , 3 plate , 2 un.ll (half-title and title) for the volume XII. Marbled calf, gilt roll framing the covers, flat spine decorated with small gilt, title and volume pieces in green Morocco ; yellow edges (19th-century binding).
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Brunet 281, Quérard 291
A reprint of the famous edition compiled by Voltaire, supplemented by his dedicatory epistle to the Académie française and his Discours sur le poème dramatique.
A complete copy, including all 35 illustrations.
This edition was originally published by subscription by the Cramer brothers in Geneva in 1764. Voltaire wrote all the commentaries accompanying each play. This Parisian reprint of 1797, published by the booksellers Bossange, Masson and Besson, reproduces the text and illustrations of Voltaire’s edition.
The twelve volumes contain Corneille’s complete dramatic works in the following order: Volume I brings together Voltaire’s dedicatory epistle, the Discours sur le poème dramatique, Mélite and Clitandre; Volume II, La Veuve, La Galerie du Palais, La Suivante and La Place Royale; Volume III contains Médée and Le Cid; Volume IV contains L’Illusion comique, Horace, Cinna ou la Clémence d’Auguste and Jules César; Volume V contains Polyeucte Martyr, Pompée and Le Menteur; Volume VI contains La Suite du Menteur, Rodogune and Théodore, vierge et martyre; Volume VII, L’Héraclius espagnol, Héraclius and Andromède; Volume VIII, Don Sanche d’Aragon, Nicomède and Pertharite; Volume IX, Œdipe, La Toison d’or and Sertorius; Volume X, Sophonisbe, Othon and Agésilas; Volume XI, Attila, Racine’s Bérénice and Pulchérie; Volume XII, Suréna, The Earl of Essex and various works by P. Corneille.
A fine copy in a 19th-century marbled calf binding, with a sun-faded spine.
A handwritten note in brown ink by a contemporary drawing a parallel between Corneille’s work and politics.
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