CORNEILLE (Pierre and Thomas). - Lot 48

CORNEILLE (Pierre and Thomas). Œuvres... with comments by Voltaire. Paris : Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1817. - 12 volumes in-8, red half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed with gilded fillets, untrimmed (period binding). A fine edition of the works of Pierre and Thomas Corneille, the latter's works being grouped together in the last volume. It is illustrated with two portraits of the two authors by Augustin de Saint-Aubin and twenty-four plates, all engraved after drawings by Moreau le jeune except for the frontispiece of the volume of "L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ" after Prudhon. ONE OF 100 COPIES ON VELLUM PAPER, WITH THE TWENTY-FOUR FIGURES BY MOREAU AND PRUDHON IN THEIR ORIGINAL CONDITION. A good copy in contemporary binding, with full margins. Slight wear to spines. Some foxing. Tears on the edge of the leaf on pages 153-154 in volume 5, without damage to the text, as well as on pages 305 to 308 in volume 6, with damage to the text on page 308.