Racine Jean - Lot 105

Racine Jean Œuvres. Collection des classiques françois. Paris, Didot et Lefèvre 1825. 7 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, particularly on some of the nerves. Printed on strong vellum with full margins, very white paper, very few pitting marks throughout the text sections. Series packed with numerous engravings from other editions, documents, portraits, suites of illustrations before the letter, etc. Some of the added engravings are ruffled. Some of the added engravings are foxed. A handwritten pencil table indicates the documents added. A complete, elegant and well-established series, remarkably printed by Jules Didot, imprimeur du roi.