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Lot n° 73

RACINE (Jean).

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Works. Paris, Denys Thierry [Pierre Trabouillet for Volume II], 1697. 2 volumes in-12, blue morocco, jansenist, inside lace, gold edges on marbling (Chambolle-Duru). Third collective edition, the first complete and the last review by the author. She is the first to understand Racine's last two plays: Esther and Athalie. The illustration has 2 frontispieces, one engraved after Le Brun, and 12 figures engraved in intaglio by François Chauveau. From the Jules Lemaître library (ex-libris). Back a little dark