RACINE, Jean. Complete works. With notes by all commentators - Lot 201

RACINE, Jean. Complete works. With notes by all commentators. Paris, Lefèvre, 1820. 6 volumes in-8, midnight blue glazed half-calf, spines with 4 false nerves set with a gilt frieze, gilt and cold-lettered fillets, friezes and fleurons, title in gilt letters. Contemporary binding. CLXXII and 395 pp; 515 pp; 541 pp; 388 pp; 500 pp; 522 pp, 2 frontispieces and 12 plates under serpente hors-texte, all engraved on steel. Slight rubbing, one cap and one corner damaged, some corners slightly bent. Light and rare foxing, one flyleaf in volume 4. Fine edition of the complete works of Jean Racine published by Louis-Aimé Martin (1782-1847), illustrated in the first printing with 14 steel-engraved figures after Girodet, Prudhon, Chaudel, Desenne, Moitte, Launay and Gérard. Complete series in 6 volumes. Volumes 5 and 6 uncut. A pleasant copy of the period, well established and identical.