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Chefs-d’œuvre dramatiques de Voltaire.
1819rif. voltaireoeuvresComplete four-volume 1819 stereotype edition of Chefs-d'œuvre dramatiques de Voltaire. Chefs-d'œuvre dramatiques de Voltaire. Paris: Dabo Tremblay Feret et Gayet quai des Augustins no. 49 1819. Stereotype d'Herhan. 4 vols. 12mo. Each title page dated 1819 and bearing the Herhan medallion printer's device. Text in French printed in double columns. The principal dramatic works of Voltaire including Œdipe Zaïre Mahomet Mérope Alzire La Mort de César Tancrède Sémiramis and others—representing the canonical "chef-d'œuvre" corpus admired in the early nineteenth century as models of French classical theatre. Contemporary or near-contemporary half calf over marbled boards smooth spines with gilt fillets brown morocco title labels gilt-lettered Œuvres de Voltaire / Tom. I–IV. Marbled endpapers sprinkled edges. Light rubbing to joints and headcaps; scattered foxing as usual for French stereotype editions; clean and sound internally an attractive and well-preserved set. Dabo, Tremblay, Feret et Gayet
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