Gp.4.01 - Gp.4.04
Works. 1864.
Œeuvres complètes de Molière avec des notes de tous les commentateurs le variantes, et la préface de 1682.
Paris : Librairie de Firmin Didot frères, Imprimeurs de l'Institut, rue Jacob, 56, M DCCC LIV. [1854]
4 v. ; 24 cm. (8vo)
Each volume includes a half-title page.
Printer's name on verso of half-title: Paris. Typographie de Firmin Didot frères, rue Jacob, 56.
Armorial binding bears the arms of Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria (1819-1861) - see University of Toronto Armorial Bindings database, Prince Albert, stamp 1.
Armorial binding bears the arms of Eton College. Possibly bound as an Eton College prize supported by Prince Albert, or as a gift from Prince Albert to Eton College School Library.
Contemporary mid brown sheep; gold tooled sprig roll and blind tooled dot roll borders; gold tooled armorial centrepieces on both boards; gold tooled swag roll on board edges; gold tooled decoration on spine; faded red and black spine labels with gold tooled letters; blue, red and cream nonpareil marbled endpapers and edges.
Label on front pastedown: Williams & Norgate, London & Edinburgh.
Albert, 1819 - 1861 Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain,
Firmin-Didot printer.
Williams & Norgate bookseller.
France Paris.
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