Jean Racine — Les Oeuvres de Jean Racine

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1874-75. Leather. A strikingly bound set of the original French dramatic works of Jean Racine, containing all of his important plays, complete with illustrations throughout. In a signed binding by Canape.Complete in five volumes.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, engraved title page, and three plates.Volume II illustrated with three plates.Volume III illustrated with three plates.Volume IV illustrated with three plates.Collated, complete.With notices by Anatole France.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards by Canape. Externally, smart, with a little rubbing the spines. Minor bumping to the extremities. A little fading to the spine. A few minor marks to the boards and spines. Front hinge of Volume I is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with a few odd spots. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .