[CORNEILLE, Pierre; CORNEILLE, Thomas]. Les chef-d'oeuvres dramatiques de Messieurs Corneille, avec le jugement des sçavans ê la fin de chaque piéce. A Amsterdam: Aux dépens de la Compagnie, M. DCC. LXXIII. [1773].
Reprint. Complete in four volumes. Leather-bound. 12mo (165 x 85 mm.), pp. viii, (2), 384; (6), 314; (8), 172 [i.e. 272]; (8), 352. French text. Bound in contemporary full marbled calf, smooth spines gilt, marbled page edges and endpapers, engravings, head- and tail-pieces. Vol. 1. Tragedies de P. Corneille: Le Cid; Horace; Cinna; Polyeucte; La mort de Pompée. -- Vol. 2. Tragedies de P. Corneille: Rodogune; Heraclitus; Othon. Tragedie de T. Corneille: Ariane. -- Vol.3. Tragedies de P. Corneille: La Comte d'Essex; Comedie de P. Corneille: Le Menteur; Comedie de T. Corneille: Le Baron d'Albikrac. -- Vol. 4. Comedies de T. Corneille: Le Festin de Pierre; La Comtesse d'Orgueil; L'Inconnu. Condition: Collated compete. Bindings tight and secure, however there is some minor cracking to some joints and rubbing to points and spine ends. Contents very well preserved with some light browning, a few leaves with marginal staining. A lovely set without previous ownership markings. Scarce.
