Jean RACINE
Oeuvres de Jean Racine, avec les variantes et les imitations des auteurs grecs et latins
Stéréotype d'Hernan|Paris 1807|13.50 x 21.50 cm|5 volumes reliés
Stéréotype d'Hernan, Paris 1807, 8° (13,5x21,5cm), CLXXII, 297pp. and 488pp. and 486pp. and 392pp. and V, 310pp., 5 green morocco volumes.
Wonderful copy with 89 illustrations added from several Racine illustrated editions: a portrait by Santerre, 12 engravings after Gravelot (most of them before lettering, from the 1768 edition of Louis Cellot), a second portrait by Saint-Aubin, a portrait of Boileau, 50 engravings, mostly after Robert and Stéphane-Barthélémy Garnier (some before lettering, Edition Le Nomant 1808) and a set of illustrations by Barbier l'Aîné; 12 engravings by Moreau Le Jeune (Edition Crapelet 1811) and 12 engravings after Desenne by Simonnet (Edition Didot 1803). Printed on...
Wonderful copy with 89 illustrations added from several Racine illustrated editions: a portrait by Santerre, 12 engravings after Gravelot (most of them before lettering, from the 1768 edition of Louis Cellot), a second portrait by Saint-Aubin, a portrait of Boileau, 50 engravings, mostly after Robert and Stéphane-Barthélémy Garnier (some before lettering, Edition Le Nomant 1808) and a set of illustrations by Barbier l'Aîné; 12 engravings by Moreau Le Jeune (Edition Crapelet 1811) and 12 engravings after Desenne by Simonnet (Edition Didot 1803). Printed on...
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