Corneille Pierre - Lot 99

Corneille Pierre Œuvres. Collection des classiques françois. Paris, Didot et Lefèvre 1824. 12 volumes large in-8°, binding signed Capé. Half-maroquin with corners, spines highly decorated with gilded motifs in small pearled irons, gilded titles and endpapers, gilded heads. Untrimmed copy, with a few minor defects and wear. Old trace of wetness on the spine of volume 7. Printed on strong vellum with full margins, very white paper, very few pitting marks throughout the text sections. This series is packed with numerous engravings from other editions, documents, portraits, suites of illustrations before the letter, etc. Some of the added engravings are sometimes ruffled. Some of the added engravings are foxed. A handwritten table in pencil indicates the documents added; there are 217 documents added for Corneille's works. Complete set in 12 volumes. An elegant, well-established series, remarkably printed by Jules Didot, imprimeur du roi.