RACINE (Jean).Livre Rare Book
Jean RACINEBiblio.com
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1673réf. 86102Paris: Claude Barbin 1673. Fine. The copy of the famous bibliophile Mortimer L. Schiff Claude Barbin Paris 1673 9 x 15.50 cm relié First edition with the correct imprint of March 16 1673. Nineteenth-century full red morocco binding Jansenist spine with five raised bands date and place gilt at foot combed paper doublure and endpapers wide gilt dentelle framing the doublure double gilt fillets on edges tooled headcaps all edges red perfect binding signed Chambolle-Duru. Provenance: from the legendary library of banker and collector Mortimer L. Schiff owner of the New York Post and one of the founding members of the Boy Scouts of America with his bookplate mounted on the front board. He assembled one of the most important libraries of the interwar period. His collection began in 1911-1912 when he participated in successive sales of the library of another great American collector Robert Hoe III 1839-1909 acquiring about a hundred representative pieces from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His collection notably comprised a remarkable ensemble of first editions of French classics. Sale Sotheby & Co. July 7 1938 lot 1134. Claude Barbin hardcover
