1843. No Edition Stated. 472 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Book is written in French. Marbled endpapers. Fabric bookmark. With illustrated frontispiece and tissue guard. All text block edges gilt. Pages have mild foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Heavier foxing and tanning to some pages. Info about Corneille and book's owners pasted to rear endpaper. Ex libris plate to front pastedown. Attached bookmark is frayed at the end. Frontispiece's tissue guard is creased, tanned, torn, pencil marks. Boards have various small stains, marks, and some mottling, including a liquid stain to front. Corners are bumped and fraying with some loss of outer layer. Spine ends are a little worn. Joints rubbed. Gilt is bright.