RACINE, Jean.
Oeuvres Completes de Racine.
HANDSOME PRIZE BINDING OF RACINE
Paris: L. Hatchette et Cie, 1859.
2 vols., 8vo (7 x 4.75 inches). Full calf by M.WARD
& CO. BELFAST, red label, gilt raised bands, superb
floral pattern to panels, floral roll framing large
armorial device of Queen's College Belfast to both
boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Prize bookplate
dated 1860 to front pastedown. A superb set.
Racine was one of the most important
seventeenth-century European literary figures; best
known for his tragedies, he is often associated with
Molière and Corneille.
Uniformly bound with our copies of Molière, Pascal and
La Fontaine.
£120.00
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