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RACINE, Jean (1639-1699)

Lot 162
30.06.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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Lot 162 | RACINE, Jean (1639-1699)
Estimate value
€ 12 000 – 18 000
RACINE, Jean (1639-1699)

Oeuvres. Paris : Didot l'aîné, 1801-1805

Exemplaire relié à l'époque pour l'empereur François II par le meilleur relieur de Vienne, de "l'un des livres les plus magnifiques que la typographie d'aucun pays eut encore produits" (Brunet). Les somptueuses reliures de maroquin rouge dont sont revêtus les volumes ont été exécutées par Georg Friedrich Krauss (1806-1876), le relieur le plus en vue de Vienne à l'époque. Parmi ses patrons les plus prestigieux se trouvait également le duc Albert Casimir de Saxe-Teschen, duc de Teschen (1738-1822). Le présent exemplaire a été relié pour l'empereur François II (1768-1835). Cohen-de Ricci, col. 849-850 ("édition magnifique et de grand luxe, chef d'oeuvre de typographie") ; Brunet, IV, col. 1079 ; Vicaire, VI, col. 936-937.



3 vol. in-folio (482 x 338 mm). Tirage limité à 250 exemplaires, celui-ci le n°236, justifié à l'encre et signé par P. Didot l'aîné. Frontispice gravé par Marais d'après Prud'hon, et 56 estampes, introduisant chacun des actes. Reliure viennoise de l'époque attribuable à Georg Friedrich Krauss : maroquin rouge à long grain, riche encadrement sur les plats avec lyres aux angles, dos à doubles nerfs ornés, caissons richement ornés de fleurons, de lyres, de nimbes, pièces de titre et tomaisons de maroquin vert, tranches dorées. Provenance : cachet de la bibliothèque de l'empereur François II (1768-1835). Sa bibliothèque devint ensuite la Hapsburg Fideikommissbibliothek, dont le cachet a également été apposé sur l'exemplaire -- ex-libris de Rudolf von Gutmann (1880-1966 ; Sotheby's Londres, 2 avril 1993, lot n°77).





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A MAGNIFICENT AND MOST PRESTIGIOUS COPY, BOUND AT THE TIME FOR EMPEROR FRANCIS II (1768-1835) BY THE LEADING VIENNESE BINDER OF THE TIME, GEORG FRIEDRICH KRAUSS, WHO WAS ALSO THE BINDER OF MOST OF DUKE ALBERT OF SAXE-TESCHEN'S LIBRARY.
Artist:Jean Racine (1639 - 1699)
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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