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La mort de Pompee : tragedie.

Accession number
PML 2061
Creator
Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684.
Published
A Paris, Chez Antoine de Sommaville ... & Augustin Courbé ... 1644.
Notes
Dedication signed: Corneille.
"Gratiarum actio eminentissimo cardinali Julio Mazarino, ex gallico Cornelii", signed A.R. (i.e. Abraham Ravaud); 9th-10th prelim. leaves. This is a Latin translation of Corneille's "Remerciment a ... cardinal Mazarin."
Cf. Picot, Émile. Bibliographie Cornélienne ... Paris, 1876, p. 37-40, no. 32; Tchemerzine, A. Bibliographie ... d'auteurs français ... Paris, 1927-33, v. 4, p. 60.
"Faute eschapée à l'impression": verso of 8th prelim. leaf.
"A Son Eminence. Remerciment" (in verse): 5th-6th prelim. leaves.
First edition, second issue.
Title vignette (printer's mark); head and tail pieces; initials. Marginal notes.
Added illustrated title-page, engraved.
Eng'd title by Chauveau, Titled'prels. 8ff; Text, 98 pp., Priv. pp. 99 & 100 (A-N2 m 4o) sq. 8[superscript]o.
Description
10 p. l., 100 p. 23 cm
Provenance
Bl.-pl. Charles Lormier.
Binding
Red morocco by David; in 1/2 red morocco box.
Classification
Department