Accession number
PML 2664
Creator
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699.
Published
A Paris, Chez Jean Ribou, au Palais, dans la salle royale, à l'image S. Loüis. M. DC. LXXVII [1677]
Notes
Avec privilege du roy.
Frontispiece is added.
May be any presentation copy from Racine known ...
Original ed. - very rare - probably one of a few copies for presentation - this bears inscription "Pour Monsieur de Saint Amant," on back of front.
Title vignette (incl. initial M).
Frontispiece is added.
May be any presentation copy from Racine known ...
Original ed. - very rare - probably one of a few copies for presentation - this bears inscription "Pour Monsieur de Saint Amant," on back of front.
Title vignette (incl. initial M).
Description
[7] leaves, 78 pages, [1] leaf : front. ; 15 cm
Provenance
Inscription: "Pour Monsieur de Saint-Amant," thought to be presentation copy from Racine but probably not (recto of frontispiece) and inscription on premier of the play: "Hotel de Bourgogne le vendredi 1er Janvier 1677" (title page, see Merlet, Études littéraires sur les classiques français, vol. I, pp. 332-33); M.E. Daguin; his sale, part III, April 1905 (lot 989?), sold for 4300fr./£172; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1905.
Binding
Original calf over paper boards, in morocco case.
Classification
Catalog link
Department