Racine,Jean Baptiste. — Oeuvres de Racine.

A Londres, de l'imprimerie de J. Tonson & J. Watts, MDCCXXIII [1723]. 2 vols. [16 leaves],440, [4 leaves],488 pp. 2 engr. frontispieces (incl. portrait of Racine by [George] Vertue), 12 full page engraved plates by Dubosc, Fourdrinier, and Van der Gucht after drawings by Louis Chéron & numerous head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials. Contemporary speckled calf, spines raised in six compartments, spine richly gilt, board edges gilt tooled, marbled endpapers. 4to. - Outer joints sl. cracked (but still firm), small piece missing of spine volume II.* Complete and very good illustrated copy of this English edition of the collected works of Jean Racine. These editions are very rare in this condition. - - Jean Racine, baptized Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 - 21 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille. # Cohen-De Ricci 844-845; ESTC T185766.