Théatre de Pierre Corneille : avec des commentaires, &c. &c. &c
Hubert François Gravelot (Artist), Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (Artist), Claude-Henri Watelet (Engraver), Noël Le Mire (Engraver), Jean Charles Baquoy (Engraver), Joseph de Longueil (Engraver), Jean Jacques Flipart (Engraver), Antoine Radigues (Engraver), Louis Simon Lempereur (Engraver), Benoît Louis Prévost (Engraver), Voltaire (Editor, Writer of added commentary, Translator), Pierre Corneille, Fontenelle, Thomas Corneille, Jean Racine, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, William Shakespeare, Frères Cramer (Publisher), Académie française (Dedicatee)
Drama
12 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm, 8vo.
8604544
Title vignettes
Contains 35 plates
Frontispiece includes engraving of angel laying a wreath on a mounted bust of Corneille
Commentaries are by Voltaire. See National union catalog of pre-1956 imprints
"Belle édition que Voltaire fit imprimer par souscription chez les frères Cramer à Genève ..."--Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle, 1912, page 255
This edition also contains the plays "Ariane" and "Le comte d'Essex" by Thomas Corneille; the play "Bérénice" by Racine; the play "En esta vida todo es verdad y todo mentira", translated by Voltaire under the title "L'Héraelius espagnol", by Pedro Calderón de la Barca; and the play "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare translated by Voltaire. The edition is dedicated to the members of the Académie Française
"Liste des souscripteurs": volume 12, pages 1-47 at end
The frontispiece was drawn by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre and engraved by Claude Henri Watelet (1762). The plates were drawn by Hubert Gravelot and engraved by Noël le Mire, C. Baquoy, Joseph de Longueil, Jean Jacques Flipart, Antoine Radigues, Louis Simon Lempereur, and Benoît Louis Prévost
Volumes include an errata page following the title page (volumes 5, 7, and 11 without erratas)