Shelfmark
Ft.5.08 - Ft.5.09
Author
Title
Œuvres de Racine. Tome premier (-second).
Varying form of title
Oeuvres de Racine
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Tragedies de Racine
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez Claude Barbin, sur le scond perron de la Sainte Chapelle., M. DC. XCVII. (1697)
Physical description
2 v. : ill. (engr.) ; 12⁰ in 8s and 4s.
Note
Vol. 1: [12], 468 p.; v. 2: [12], 516 p.
Note
Plates included in pagination.
Note
Volume 1 has added engraved title-page, signed C. le Brun: Tragedies de Racine.
Note
Volume 2 has added engraved title page: Oevvres de Racine. Tome II.
Note
Each play illustrated by a plate; plates signed F. Chauveau.
Note
Woodcut title vignettes, initials, head- and tailpieces.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Tome premier. La Thebaïde, ou Les freres enenmis. Alexandre le Grand. Andromaque. Britannicus. Berenice. Les plaideurs. Harangue de l'Academie. Idylle sur la paix -- Tome second. Bajazet. Mithridate. Iphigenie. Phedre. Ester. Athalie. Cantiques.
Provenance
Presented to ECL in November 2023 in memory of Alain Le Pichon.
Binding
Late 17th/early 18th century sprinkled calf binding; gold-tooled compartments between five raised bands; red leather spine labels; marbled endpapers; sprinkled fore-edges.
Subject
French drama 17th century.
Added entry--name
Le Brun, Charles, 1619 - 1690 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Chauveau, François, 1613 - 1676 engraver.
Added entry--name
Barbin, Claude, ca. 1628 - 1698 publisher.
Added entry--name
Le Pichon, Alain. associated name.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Identifier
B52037