Chefs-d'oeuvre de Pierre Corneille,. avec les examens de Voltaire et de La Harpe, precedes de sa vie par Fontenelle, et de son éloge par Gaillard …
Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
Category
Books
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 3231418
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plate : illus., port. ; 8vo. Not indigenous. Imperfect: tome 1 only. Provenance: National Trust red oak leaf stamp. Printed booklabel on front pastedown 'Marianne Heale'. Inscribed “Marianne Heale 1831”. Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; single gold fillet on boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; gilt fillets on spine; spine labels with title and vol. no. (mostly wanting).
Makers and roles
Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684) Sautelet François-Marie-Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) Gabriel-Henri Gaillard (1726-1806) Jean François de La Harpe (1739-1803) Achille Devéria (1800 - 1857) Adèle Ethiou (fl.1820-1830) Grant & Bolton Cunningham Collection