212 - SUMAROKOV (Alexander Petrovich). The Tragic Plays of Alexander Sumarokov, translated from the Russian by Manuel-Léonard Pappadopoulo. Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, X–1801. 2 volumes in-8, speckled fawn sheepskin with a smooth, decorated spine, red title labels and black volume numbers, yellow edges (contemporary binding).

SUMAROKOV (Alexander Petrovich). The Tragic Plays of Alexander Sumarokov, translated from the Russian by Manuel-Léonard Pappadopoulo. Paris, Antoine-Augustin Renouard, X–1801. 2 volumes in-8, speckled fawn sheepskin with a smooth, decorated spine, red title labels and black volume numbers, yellow edges (contemporary binding). The only French collected edition of the tragedies by Sumarokov (1727–1777), a Russian poet and playwright who pioneered classical theater in Russia, writing the first tragedies, comedies, and operas in Russian. Allegorical frontispiece engraved on copper by Trière after Moreau the Younger. The first volume opens with an “Epistle on the Usefulness of Glass” by Mikhail Lomonosov and contains the tragedies *Sinaw and Trouwor*, *Semire and Yaropolk*, and *Dimise*. Volume II contains the plays *Khorew*—the first Russian tragedy, set in the ducal palace of Kiev—*Aristone*, and the play *Martesia and Thalestris* by Mikhail Kherashov. Small tail-shaped tear, scuff marks on the covers, one corner broken.