Rare- 1776 Set of 10 Theatre Books by Pierre Corneille, Written in French. They are bound in full leather, with decorative spines and stamped leather covers… they have a very unique and custom pattern. Overall they are pretty worn for their age, but all of the hinges are together and intact! Which is amazing… they were well constructed. They also have beautiful textured linen paper inside and are filled with the most amazing engravings throughout all of the books!
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.
