{"id":84665,"date":"2025-03-07T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.librairieclavreuil.com\/racine-jean-oeuvres\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:54:56","slug":"racine-jean-oeuvres","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.librairieclavreuil.com\/en\/racine-jean-oeuvres\/","title":{"rendered":"RACINE Jean \u0152uvres."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><i>Quentin-Bauchart, I, 433sq.;&nbsp;Tchemerzine-Scheler, V, 361 ; Cohen-de Ricci, 844 ; Guibert, 165-169.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">Very fine collective edition consisting of the same pieces as that of 1697, but most likely the last one to be corrected by Racine during his lifetime before his death in 1699. Amagnificent copy bound for the Duchesse du Maine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;&#8220;Mais <i>Esther<\/i> y est divis\u00e9 en cinq actes au lieu de trois. Il est probable que Racine avait commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 la pr\u00e9parer avant sa mort. Les <i>Plaideurs<\/i> y offrent d&#8217;int\u00e9ressantes variantes et cette pi\u00e8ce pr\u00e9sent un texte en grande partie remani\u00e9. Il est de tradition que Boileau en aurait surveill\u00e9 l&#8217;impression&#8221; (Tchemerzine).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Guibert also assumes that this is the last edition corrected by Racine himself : &#8220;Nous devons consid\u00e9rer cette \u00e9dition de 1702 comme la plus conforme au v\u0153u de Racine et il est vraisemblable que l&#8217;auteur l&#8217;avait r\u00e9vis\u00e9e avant sa mort survenue en 1699&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The copy is complete with the two engraved titles as well as the 12 engraved plates illustrating the plays called for by the bibliographers (volume I : Theba\u00efde ; Alexandre ; Andromaque ; Britannicus ; B\u00e9r\u00e9nice ; Les Plaideurs. Volume II : Bajazet ; Mithridate ; Iphig\u00e9nie ; Ph\u00e8dre ; Esther ; Athalie).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Cohen describes this edition &#8211; despite its date of printing &#8211; as belonging more to the productions of the seventeenth century judging by its layout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">Highly important feminine bibliophile provenance<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This copy bound for Anne-Louise-B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte de Bourbon (1676-1573), daughter of the Duke of Bourbon and Anne of Bavaria, and granddaughter of the Grand Cond\u00e9. It bears on each cover her central coart of arms. \u2018She married Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duc du Maine, legitimate son of Louis XIV and the Marquise de Montespan, on 19 March 1692. Her ambition led her to take part in the Cellamare conspiracy in 1718, following a decision by Parliament to strip her husband of any right of succession to the throne. After being arrested and detained for fifteen months, she renounced all political ambitions and returned to Sceau, where she opened her salon to the \u2018beaux esprits\u2019\u2019 (see OHR).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Magnificent copy of important feminine bibliophile provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">2 volumes, 12mo (167 x 95 mm) engraved title, 4 nn.ll., 468 pp., 6 engraved plates for volume I; engraved title, 5 nn.ll., 516 pp., 6 engraved plates for volume II. Contemporary citron morocco, triple gilt filet on covers, central coat of arms of Duchesse du Maine (OHR 2604), spine with raised bands, compartments gilt with leur de lis tool, light brown lettering pieces, gilt borders, inner cover in citron morcoo within gilt border, marbled and gilt edges, in a modern light brown morocco clam-shell box.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":84652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[530],"product_tag":[1245,1267,1235],"class_list":{"0":"post-84665","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-binding","7":"product_tag-18th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-binding","9":"product_tag-women","10":"pa_auteur-racine-jean-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Jean RACINE","chapeau":"The Duchesse du Maine copy bound in a doubl\u00e9-binding in citron morocco","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Denys Thierry, 1702","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RACINE Jean \u0152uvres. - Libairie Clavreuil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.librairieclavreuil.com\/en\/racine-jean-oeuvres\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RACINE Jean \u0152uvres. - Libairie Clavreuil\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2 volumes, 12mo (167 x 95 mm) engraved title, 4 nn.ll., 468 pp., 6 engraved plates for volume I; engraved title, 5 nn.ll., 516 pp., 6 engraved plates for volume II. 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