Jean Racine - Oeuvres de Racine - 1723

Title

Oeuvres de Racine

Author

Jean Racine

Year

1723

Publisher

J. Tonson & J. Watts, London

Description

Two volumes, richly illustrated. An early eighteenth-century London edition of Racine’s works, issued for the English market at a time of sustained admiration for French classical drama. Handsomely printed, the set presents the tragedies that secured Racine’s pre-eminence in seventeenth-century theatre, all works central to the canon of French classicism and to the wider European stage.

Vol 1: [16], 440 pp.

Vol 2: [7], 488 pp.

Condition

Covers worn; foxing and occasional markings throughout; corner torn from p. 319 of vol 1; heavier markings on p. 339 of vol. 2.