Le theatre de P. Corneille.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684, author.

Contributor:

Wolfgang, Abraham, active 1658-1694, printer.

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

E. B. Krumbhaar Fund.

Standardized Title:

Works

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

French drama--17th century--Early works to 1800.

French drama.

Physical Description:

4 volumes : portrait ; 14 cm (12mo)

Edition:

Reveu [sic] & corrigé, & augmenté de diverses pieces nouvelles.

Fingerprint:

esi- s-es nend nePt (3) 1664 (R) v.1

urn- stn, usla exen (3) 1664 (R) v.2

mees onsi onn- nele (3) 1664 (R) v.3

x.us r.ur e,ge QuQu (3) 1664 (R) v.4

Place of Publication:

Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris [in Amsterdam] : [Abraham Wolfgang], MDCLXIV [that is, 1664-1665]

Contents:

I. partie. L'imprimeur au lecteur ; Discours de l'utilité et des parties du poeme dramatique ; Examen des poëmes contenues in cette premiere partie ; Melite ; Clitandre ; La vefve ; La gallerie du palais ; La suivante ; La place royalle ; Medee ; L'illusion

II partie. Discours de la tragedie ; Le Cid ; Horace ; Cinna ; Polyeucte ; Pompée ; Theodore ; Le menteur ; La suite du Menteur

III. partie. Discours des trois unitez, d'action, de jour, & de lieu ; Examen des poëmes contenus en ce troisiéme volume ; Rodogune ; Heraclius ; Andromede ; D. Sanche d'Arragon ; Nicomede ; Pertharite ; Oedipe

IV. partie. Sertorius ; Toison d'Or ; Sophonisbe ; Othon.

Notes:

"L'imprimeur au lecteur" in I. partie signed: A.W. [i.e. Abraham Wolfgang; see Willems and Rahir].

Imprint dates of individual works vary. Those in I. partie are dated: 1664. Those in II.-III. parties are dated: 1663. Those in IV. partie are dated as follows: Sertorius (1664), Toison d'Or (1662), Sophonisbe (1663), Othon (1665).

Signatures: I. partie: [superscript pi]*⁸ *¹⁰ 2-3*¹² 4*⁴ A-E¹² F⁸ G-I¹² K⁴ L-N¹² O⁴ P-T¹² V⁸ X-Y¹² Z⁶ 2A-2C¹² ; II. partie: *-4*¹² A-H¹² I⁸ K-X¹² Y⁴, ²A-C¹² D⁶ (leaves F11-F12 and P10-P12 are blanks) ; III. partie: *-3*¹² A-X¹² (leaves 3*11-3*12 and C12 are blanks) ; IV. partie: [superscript pi]A⁶ 2D-2F¹² chi1 A-C¹², ²D¹²(-D12), ³chi1 A-C¹², ⁴A-C¹².

Pagination: I. partie: [18], 74, [4], 68, [4], 60, [4], 76, [4] 76, [4], 67, [5], 59, [5], 56, [4], 68 pages ; II. partie : [4], 92, [4], 68, [4] 64, [8], 60, [4], 68, [4], 62, [8], 68, [4], 76, [4], 80 pages ; III. partie: [4], 68, [8], 66, [6], 68, [4], 68, [4], 68, [4], 68, [4], 67, [5], 68 pages ; IV. partie: [16], 67, [11], 85, [11], 64, [6], 66 pages.

Each volume has its own title leaf; each work has an engraved half-title leaf and dated letter-press title leaf. I.-III. parties have continuous signatures but each work has separate pagination. Works in IV. partie have separate signatures and pagination.

Engraved illustrated title leaves and portrait.

Woodcut title vignettes (printer's devices), initials, factotum, head- and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head-pieces.

Local Notes:

Elzevier copy imperfect: I. partie: gathering [superscript pi]* ("L'imprimeur au lecteur") wanting; II. partie: leaf P12 (blank) wanting.

Elzevier copy: I.-III. parties each bound in 2 volumes; IV. partie bound as a single volume; each volume is numbered separately ("I"-"VII") on spine.

Elzevier copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Librairie du Passage.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the E. B. Krumbhaar Fund.

Elzevier copy: III. partie, volume 1 has 2 small cards with manuscript contents notes laid in.

Elzevier copy: I. partie: tail outer corner of leaf S3 torn off and mended with a blank leaf; II. partie: head outer corner of leaf K2 (letter-press title leaf) torn off with some damage to text on recto and type-ornament head-piece on verso; IV. partie: leaf 2D1 bound in out of order after leaf [superscript pi]A1.

Cited in:

Willems, A. Elzevier, 1727

Rahir, E. Elzevier, 2223

Short-title catalogue Netherlands 270499245, 242889794, 270942513, 270947663

OCLC:

1049764258