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The Works of Racine.
Paris: Denys Thierry, 1687.
Fees include commission and taxes.
The Works of Racine.
Paris: Denys Thierry, 1687.
Two volumes in-12, (4) folios, 372 pp. and (6) folios, 434 pp., (2) folios. 20th-century brick-red polished morocco-style sheepskin, spine with 5 raised bands, title and volume number in gold, richly decorated panels edged with a gold fillet, gold scrolls at head and tail, triple gold fillet framing the covers, gold scrolls on the raised bands, cap bands, cut-outs and chases, gilt edges [Devauchelle] (spine worn, minor restoration in the margin on p. 169 (vol. 1), old handwritten bookplate washed off on the title page of vol. 2).
An important second collective edition of Racine’s works. Published jointly by the Parisian booksellers Claude Barbin, Denys Thierry and Pierre Trabouillet, this is the first edition to include *Phèdre* with continuous pagination, as well as the *Idylle sur la Paix* and the speech delivered by Racine at the Académie Française on 2 January 1685. Illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and 10 copperplate engravings in black after drawings by François Chauveau (1613–1676), except for the frontispiece of Volume 1, engraved by Le Clerc after Charles Le Brun (1619–1690). Tchémerzine IX, 359. Guibert, 150–153.