Jean Racine; Louis Aime-Martin — Oeuvres Completes de J. Racine

Paris, Lefevre, 1820. First edition. Leather. The collected works of Jean Racine, the first edition to be edited by Louis Aime-Martin, a lavishly illustrated set. Complete in six volumes.The first edition of Racine's works edited by Louis Aime-Martin.In the original French.The collected dramatic works of Jean Racine, one of the three greatest playwrights of seventeenth century France, and an important figure in Western literary tradition.Racine's plays were typically tragedies, such as 'Phedre', 'Andromaque', and 'Athalie&apos. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for being a master example of the dodecasyllabic French alexandrine.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and three plates.Volume II illustrated with four plates.Volume III illustrated with three plates. Volume IV illustrated with two plates.Volume V illustrated with a frontispiece.Bookplate of Guille-Alles Library, Guernsey, to the front paste downs, with their stamps to the endpapers, and half-titles. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart. Labels to the tail of the spines, with tape to the tail of the joints. Loss to the head of the spines of Volumes I, II, IV, V, and VI, head of the spine of Volume I is lifting to the rear joint. Light bumping to the extremities. Some minor marks and a little rubbing to the boards and spines. Institutional bookplate to the front paste downs and stamps to the front free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with some spotting, spots heavier to the first and last few pages. Institutional stamp to the half-titles. Volume II many pages unopened to the fore edge. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .