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CONTENTS
These are volumes III and IV, part of a complete series of twenty-five beautifully bound volumes of French dramatic works, including the work of playwrights of the caliber of Molière, Corneille, Racine and Voltaire. Claude-Bernard Petitot, editor of this collection, provides introductory notes on each author. The first six volumes are devoted to tragedies, the next volume to drama and the last eighteen to comedies. volume III contains 4 tragedies, volume IV contains 3 comedies.
CONDITION REPORT
In-8. Volume III pp.494, volume IV pp. 492. Leather binding. Burnished and sprayed cuts. Marbled edges. Gold embossed floral frame on the plates. Signs of wear on hinge and head of tome III. Wear to the head of volume IV and some small holes on the deck. Widespread blooms. Gilded friezes and titles on spine, title on red morocco insert, theatrical genre and volume numbering on brown insert. Signs of mill stain on the first end of volume III, rather worn pag. 35-36, without compromising the text. Plates engraved in black and white outside the text, the work of numerous illustrators, including Guyot and Leopold Massard.
FULL TITLE & AUTHORS
Répertoire du théatre françois, ou Recueil des tragédies et comedies restées au théatre depuis Rotrou, pour faire suite aux editions in octavo de Corneille, Moliere, Racine, Regnard, Crébillon, et au théatre de Voltaire. Avec des notices sur chaque auteur, et l'examen de chaque piece, par M. Petitot.
In Paris, Perlet, 1804
Claude-Bernard Petitot 67298973