Corneille, Pierre & Thomas: - Les Chef-d''Oeuvres Dramatiques de Messieurs Corneille. Avec Le Jugement des Scavans a la fin de chaque Piece

Amsterdam: aux Dépens de la Compagnie, 1773. 12mo. 4 vols., pp.viii, 384 + 6 plates; [iv], 314 + 5 plates; [iv], 272 + 3 plates; [iv], 352 + 3 plates. Engraved portrait frontispieces to vols. I and II, woodcut head and tail pieces and initials, a few leaves of vol. IV unopened, '990' in blue pencil at foot of final page vols. I and IV. Occasional light spots and stains, a little damp-staining to vols. II and IV, vol. I with lower corner of leaf F2 torn but not affecting text. Later mottled calf, spines heavily gilt, edges red, marbled endpapers. Edges a little rubbed but very good. To each front paste-down the red-printed book label of the translator Niccolai Gamba-Castelli, with MS shelfmark. Vol. I - Tragédies de P. Corneille: Le Cid; Horace; Cinna; Polieucte; L Mort de la Pompée. Vol. II - Tragédies de P. Corneille: Rodogune; Heraclius; Othon. Vol. III - Tragédie de T. Corneille: Le Comte D'Essex. Comédie de P. Corneille: Le Menteur. Comédie de T. Corneille: Le Baron D'Albikrac. Vol. IV - Comédies de T. Corneille: Le Festin de Pierre; La Comtesse D'Orgueil (Nouveau Prologue); L'Inconnu (Nouveau Divertissement).