Crebillon Pere — Oeuvres de Crebillon

Paris, Librairie de Lecointe, 1831. Leather. A smart three volume set of the works of Crebillon Pere, a French writer, in the original French. French. Complete in three volumes. Volume one contains: Idomenee, Atree et Thyeste, and Electre. Volume two contains: Rhadamiste et Zenobie, Xerxes, and Semiramis. Volume three contains: Pyrrhus, Catilina, Le Triumvirat ou La Mort de Ciceron, and Discours Academiques. Crebillon had success with many of his works including Idomenee, Atree et Thyeste, and Rhadamiste et Zenobie, which was considered his finest play and a masterpiece despite a complicated and over-involved plot. But his Xerxes was only performed once and Semiramis was considered an absolute failure in court. In the original full tooled calf binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Loss to the spine labels with the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting and minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .