1905 · Paris
by GRÉTRY, André 1741-1813
Paris: Choudens [PN A.C. 10754], 1905. Large octavo. Full red cloth with titling to spine gilt, original publisher's illustrated wrappers printed in red and black bound in. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (cast list and contents), 2-109, [i] (blank) pp.
Occasional performance annotations in blue ink.
Upper wrapper slightly soiled; handstamps to upper margin of front endpaper. Browned; rectangular handstamp with annotations in blue pen to upper margin of title; tape repairs to lower margin of p. 39; handstamp to verso of final leaf. Richard Coeur de Lion, in three acts to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine after an anonymous account in the Bibliothèque universelle des romans, ii (July 1776), pp.163-94, was first performed in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne (Salle Favart) on 21 October 1784, with a later revision in four acts first performed in Paris at Fontainebleau on 25 October 1785. (Inventory #: 28510)
Occasional performance annotations in blue ink.
Upper wrapper slightly soiled; handstamps to upper margin of front endpaper. Browned; rectangular handstamp with annotations in blue pen to upper margin of title; tape repairs to lower margin of p. 39; handstamp to verso of final leaf. Richard Coeur de Lion, in three acts to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine after an anonymous account in the Bibliothèque universelle des romans, ii (July 1776), pp.163-94, was first performed in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne (Salle Favart) on 21 October 1784, with a later revision in four acts first performed in Paris at Fontainebleau on 25 October 1785. (Inventory #: 28510)