Gravelot's 34 ill. are all represented by impressions avec la lettre, all but three additionally in 1 or 2 earlier states

Title is that on preliminary letterpress leaf, printed black & red, with imprint: Paris, M.DCC.LXIV (1764). This is the date of the frères Cramer's Geneva ed. of Le théâtre de Corneille, with commentaries by Voltaire. It was reissued in 1765 and 1773, with a Paris ed. in 1797. See Brunet

Gravelot's drawings engraved by Jean-Charles Baquoy, J.J. Flipart, Noel Le Mire, L. Lempereur, J. Longueil, B.L. Prévost, A. Radigues. Prints by Le Mire are signed within the image and dated 1762 or 63

Brunet

Binding: 20th-century red goatskin, gilt tooled, edges gilt. Each print mounted and matted. Blank leaves bound in as place holders before the 3 prints present only avec la lettre (those for La toison d'or, Tite et Bérénice, Suréna)

Label of Henri Bonnasse, printed in gilt on brown goatskin. Etched bookplate with monogram AR

Bound in at end is MS letter dated 31 Jan. 1935 from Seymour de Ricci to "Monsieur Carteret" (Léopold Carteret?). In it de Ricci assures Carteret that complete suites of Gravelot's ill. for Corneille's Théâtre are extremely rare in the form of etchings or avant la lettre

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