Description
Editing Imprimatur-1954-1955.
Complete in 3 volumes with Burins by Raoul Serres, Robert Cami and Paul
Lemagny.
In unfolded sheets, folded covers, under cases and very original shirts in
purple velvet one of the 1100 copies on pure filigree tinted vellum printed
specially for this edition
Tome Premier: "Le Cid", "Le Menteur" and "Rodogune" (305 pages).Second Volume:
L'illusion comique", "Horace" et "Nicomède" (283 pages).Tome Third: "Cinna",
Polyeucte" and "The Death of Pompey".(272 pages).Format 24.5 cm by 19 cm.
State
Good setBeautiful illustrations of great finesse, under snakesNote: the snakes
are missing in volume 1 and some in volume 3.
slight signs of use on the cases, edge friction on the back, light soiling and
slight discoloration at the bottom of the casesTo note: small lack of velvet at
the edge of volume 1
body of books in good conditioncool interior yellowedTo note : qq edge
stitching on qq pages in volume 3 (it looks more like a tinting defect)and a
horny page in volume 2
Raoul Serres, born in Cazères-sur-Garonne
Haute-Garonne
in 1881
and died in 1971
is a French burin engraver and
illustrator.
Student of Jules Jacquet
Henri-Joseph Dubouchet
and Leon Bonnat , he is a
member of French artists
in
1906 and exhibits at Living room
of this
group : honorable mention in1898 , third
class medal
in 1906 , price of rome
in 1906
He has illustrated numerous small-edition bibliophile books, often of an
erotic nature. : Balzac ,
Baudelaire , Brantome
Choderlos de
Laclos , Crow
Diderot
Claude Farrere
Flaubert
Théophile Gautier
Marivaux
Maupassant
Mauriac
Root
Henri de Régnier
Restif de la Bretonne
J.-H. Rosny elder
Helgvor of the Blue
River), Voltaire .
He was also the author of postage stamps
and postcards : National Week of
Ptt (21-27 May 1945) - Fouquet de la Varenne (1946) - Centenary of the French
Postage Stamp May 21, 1949- IVe Salon Philatélique d'Automne, Paris 3-6
November 1950 - Reinatex Expo Phila Internationale April 26- May 4, 1952 Monaco
1er Arromanches Day June 5, 1954 - 1er Jour Pierre de Coubertin Nov 24, 1956
Hope" work of orphans of the PTT, exhibition Phila Paris Nov 29 / Dec 2,
1956 - Xe Salon de l'Enfance 31 oct / 17 nov 1957 - portrait of Albert CAMUS
1967 - Béziers, on the occasion of the 41e congress of the Federation of
Philatelic Societies. He is also the author of a 1950 Ecuadorian stamp, View of
Lake San Pablo (this stamp was used with overwrites in 1949 for the UPU's 75th
anniversary)
Paul Pierre Lemagny1 ,
born in Dainville-Bertheleville
Meuse
the 11
February
1905
died at Versailles
the 18
July
1977
2
and buried in
Sivry-la-Perche , is a painter
and engraver
French.
Then comes a second period of his work, devoted mainly to illustration, a
period that Lemagny will judge severely thereafter and during which he
illustrates more than 28 works, which represents more than 700 plates engraved
with a burin, a technique in which he excelled. .
Major works of illustration remain from this period, such as Regain of Jean
Giono , book for which Lemagny lives
several weeks with the author in Haute-Provence to illustrate from nature. All
the works of this period constitute the peaks of the art of the chisel in
illustration.
Robert cami, born the 1er January
1900
at Bordeaux
and dead the 12
January
1975
at Paris
is a designer
and engraver
of medals
and stamps French
Pierre Corneille, also called " the great crow " or " Crow the Elder ", born
the June 6 1606
1
at Rouen
and dead the1er October
1684
2
at Paris
Saint-Roch parish
is a playwright
and poet
French
of xviie century
Coming from a family of the bourgeoisie of dress, Pierre Corneille, after
studying law, occupied legal offices in Rouen while turning to literature, like
many law graduates of his time. He first wrotecomedies
as Melite
The Royal Square
The Comic Illusion , and
tragicomedies Clitandre (around 1630)
and in 1637 , The Cid
which was a triumph,
despite criticism from rivals and theorists. He had also given from 1634-35 a
mythological tragedy (Medea ),
but it was not until 1640 that he embarked on the path of historical tragedy -
he was the last of the dramatic poets of his generation to do so - thus giving
what posterity considered to be his leaders - work :Horace
Cinna
Polyeucte
Rodogune
Heraclius
and Nicomedes
Disappointed by the reception met by Pertharite
1652, during the
troubles of the Sling ), at
the moment when the beginning of its translation of Imitation of Jesus Christ
was an
extraordinary bookstore success, he decided to give up theatrical writing and
gradually completed the translation of Limitation. Several of his colleagues,
noting in their turn that the Fronde had caused a rejection of historical and
political tragedy, likewise gave up writing tragedies or concentrated on the
genre of comedy. Tempted as early as 1656 to return to the theater through a
spectacular tragedy commissioned by a Norman nobleman (La Conquête de la Toison
d'or, premiered in Paris six years later was one of the greatest successes of
the century), occupied in the following years correcting all his theater to
publish a new edition accompanied by critical and theoretical speeches, he
easily yielded in 1658 at the invitation of the superintendentNicolas Fouquet
and returned to the theater at
the beginning of 1659, proposing a rewrite of the main subject of the tragedy,
Oedipus . This play was
very well received and Corneille then continued successes for a few years, but
the growing favor of tragedies where the expression of the feeling of love
dominated (de Quinault, his own brother Thomas
and finally Jean Racine
relegated his creations to the
background. He stopped writing after the mixed success of Surena
in 1674
The biographical
tradition of XVIIIe and XIXe centuries imagined a Crow facing material
difficulties during his later years, but all the works of the second half of
the 20e century reveal that it was not and that Corneille ended his life in a
comfortable3 .
His work, 32 pieces in total, is varied : beside comedies
close to aesthetics baroque
full of theatrical invention like The
Comic Illusion , Pierre
Corneille was able to give a whole new emotional and reflexive power to the
tragedy modern, appeared in
France in the middle of xvie century. Struggling with the establishment of
classic rules
he
left his mark on the genre through the high figures he created : strong souls
confronted with fundamental moral choices (the famous " Cornelian dilemma
as Rodrigue
who must choose between love
and family honor, August who prefers
mercy to revenge or Polyeucte placed
between human love and the love of God. If the figures of young men full of
ardor (Rodrigue, the young Horace) are associated with figures of noble fathers
Don Diègue or the old Horace), the male figures should not make us forget the
female characters vibrating with feelings like Chimene
in The Cid, Camille in Horace or
Cleopatra, queen of Syria, in Rodogune.
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