Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

Etudes litteraires et dramatiques. nouvelle edition augmentee et ornee de portraits (reproductions du musee de versailles). ouvrage adopte par le ministere de l'instruction publique pour le bibliotheques populaires et par la ville de paris. [contents:] corneille; pascal; la rochefoucauld; la fontaine; moli?re; racine; boileau; madame de s?vign?; bosssuet; f?nelon; la bruy?re; madame de maintenon; saint-simon.

Item Description

4to. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. 317 + [3] pp. All text in French. Bound in contemporary quarter red leather over red boards; spine in compartments with raised bands decorated gilt, with gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. A little wear to lower edges of boards and light foxing of page edges. Stain on p. 292; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 13 engraved plates, numbered in text. Thirteen essays on the great French authors and dramatists of the seventeenth century, each accompanied by a portrait, a work which appeared in several editions. By Emile Faguet (1847-1916), author and critic, who was appointed professor of poetry at the University of Paris in 1897.