CORNEILLE (Pierre). Set of 7 volumes. - Lot 32

CORNEILLE (Pierre). Set of 7 volumes. Corneille (Pierre). LaToison d'or, tragedie. Printed in Rouen [by Laurent Maury], and sold in Paris, by Augustin Courbé and Guillaume de Luyne, 1661. Small in-12, parchment bradel with covers, grotesquely decorated cloisonné spine with brown title page, edges formerly speckled (modern binding). First edition. -Corneille (Pierre). LeThéâtre. ÀParis, chez Pierre Trabouillet (vol.I) puis Paris, chez Guillaume de Luynes (vol.II-III), chez Estienne Loyson (vol.IV), 1682. 4volumes in-12, calf; slightly worn bindings (contemporary binding). Definitive edition, the last published by the author. One portrait and 4 copper-engraved frontispieces hors texte. A composite copy with disparate bindings; the portrait and frontispiece in the first volume are flyleaves from another copy. One portrait added, engraved on copper by Henri-Simon Thomassin after Charles LeBrun. -CORNEILLE (Pierre): Thomas a Kempis (Thomas Hemerken, dit). The Imitation of Jesus Christ. Printed in Rouen by L.Maurry, for Robert Ballard, in Paris, 1659. 2 volumes in-12, 18th-century marbled brown basane. Translation in verse originally published in installments from 1651 to 1656. Important full-page copper-engraved illustrations in the text. Without engraved titles.