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A uniformly-bound selection of four plays from French poet and dramatist, Edmond Rostand. A four-volume set containing the plays of Edmond Rostand. Uniformly bound in quarter crushed morocco, with marbled boards and endpapers. Rostand is closely associated with neo-romanticism and is best known for his 1897 play 'Cyrano de Bergerac' and his 1894 play 'Les Romanesques', both of which are included hereThe entirety of this set includes the following works: L'Aiglon: Drame en Six Actes, en Vers (1907)-Two hundred and thirty-seventh thousand edition. Les Romanesques: Comedie en Trois Actes (1908)-Thirty-third thousand edition. Cyrano de Bergerac: Comedie Heroique en Cinq Actes en Vers (1908)-Three hundred and twenty-ninth thousand edition. La Samaritaine: Evangile en Trois Tableaux en Vers (1908)-Thirty-second thousand edition. Uniformly bound in quarter crushed morocco, with marbled boards. Externally, smart, with light rubbing to the extremities and light cracking to the joints of 'L'Aiglon'. Slight fading to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned, but clean. Very Good.

8vo, original printed wrappers, lacking the spine. Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1900. First Edition. TOGETHER WITH the first American Edition, translated by Louis Parker, in blue cloth decoratively stamped in gold. N.Y. : R.H. Russell, 1900. Fine copy. 2 volumes, each with a cloth dust wrapper, in a double 1/2 morocco slipcase. The French edition bears a presentation from Rostand, with an initialed postscript, and an initialed ink drawing of a figure in uniform with a sword. The American edition has three presentations to the same indefatigable collector: a 6 line inscription from Louis Parker, the translator, dated 1901, Rostand, who compliments the translator, in 1902, and Maude Adams, who was in the cast of the New York production, in 1904. A unique set.