Black leather spine with red title plate, gilt banding, decoration and lettering on the spine. Red marbled boards, Volumes 1 and 3. In French. (missing  volume 2).

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Oeuvres De Racine. Tome I , Tome III.

Jean-Baptiste Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such “examples of neoclassical perfection” as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther for the young.