Crebillon, M. (Prosper Jolyot) — Oeuvres de Crebillon. [Three Volumes]

Paris, Impr. de Pierre Didot l'aine, et de Firmin Didot, 1802. Ed. stereotype d'apres le procede de Firmin Didot. Full calf with gilt dentelles, morocco spine labels, gilt decorations, marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. 12mo. Prosper Jolyot Crebillon (1674-1762) a popular and esteemed French dramatist of romantic melodramas with a partiality toward violent episodes. Calf rubbed and worn especially at the joints with some cracking and some loss, small chip to the head of volume 3 and large chip, about 1/3 of spine, to volume I though most of the leather is still present and laid in loose. About good, bindings still tight, leaves clean, occasional offsetting, odd foxing to front matter only. Period bookplates to each volume.