Racine, Jean. / Crabbe, Henri-Joseph (binder)
Œuvres, précédées des mémoires sur sa vie par Louis Racine. Paris, Lefèvre, 1833. 4to (245 x 165 mm). With an engraved frontispiece-portrait, 2 f., XLVIII (Mémoires), 615 p.
Contemporary inlaid olive green morocco gilt, signed at foot of spine “H. Crabbe”: on covers outer border of gilt fillets and blind tooled rolls, enclosing small black inlaid morocco tickets with gilt names of Racine’s plays (Alexandre, Bérénice, Iphigènie, Phèdre, &c.) and little red inlaid hearts in corners; central panel framed by a blind tooled roll and a frame made of four gilt fillets with corners "à la cathédrale" with green, red brown and beige inlays, in centres a large lozenge ornament of gilt scrollwork with fleurons, small circles and leaves, partly inlaid in green, red and brown morocco; flat spine gilt and inlaid accordingly, with one large superimposed block bearing the gilt author’s name on a brown inlay; edges of boards and turn-ins gilt; doublures and endleaves of light-blue watered silk; gilt edges. Bookplate.
Sachgebiete: Bibliophilie, Einbände, Frankreich, Literatur bis ca. 1900
05.09.2022 - 15:42
3200,- EUR
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