Description
Famous Elzevirian Library series in 10 volumes.
ONE OF THE RARE COPIES ON CHINE.
The only edition of this remarkable collection of 272 plays, published separately from the 16th to 18th centuries, reviewed and annotated by Edouard Fournier. Selected for their rarity or originality, these pieces deal with history, politics, literature, the customs of Paris and more.
A very fine copy, luxuriously bound in long-grained red morocco.
Ex-libris "Jean Stern", from the library of the actress Sophie Croizette (1847-1901) and her husband, the banker Jacques Stern (1839-1902).
Ex libris engraved with the initials "JJS" and the motto "nisi credideritis non intelligetis".
Bound in contemporary style. Long-grained red morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fillets, gilt title, gold framing on covers, double gold fillet on edges, inner gold roulette, gilt edges. Dark stain on p. 23 vol. 2, angular paper loss affecting a letter on p. 122 of vol. 7; freckles, more present in book 20 of vol. 9.
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