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Andromede : tragedie, representée auec les machines sur le Theatre royal de Bourbon.

Accession number
PML 2026
Creator
Dassoucy, M. (Charles), 1605-1677.
Published
A Rouen : Chez Laurens Maurry, prés le Palais ; et se vendent a Paris : Chez Charles de Sercy, au Palais, dans la Salle dauphine, à la bonne foy couronnée, 1651.
Notes
Colophon (p. [124]): Acheué d'imprimer à Roüen par Laurens Maurry, le 13. d'Aoust 1651.
Added engraved title-page and 6 views of stage sets, by F. Chauveau after designs by G. Torelli and B. de Montbelliard.
The plates are known in two states. The frontispiece is found both with and without imprint at foot. In first state, the folded plates are foliated at lower right; in second state, the foliation has been burnished out and replaced with a one- or two-line caption.
Woodcuts: t.p. vignette, head- and tailpieces, initials. Some are signed 'M' or 'LM'.
Without the music by Charles Coypeau Dassoucy.
First ed.
Dedicatory epistle signed: Corneille.
Description
[12], 123, [1] p. (first 2 and last blank), [7] leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill. ; 23 cm
Binding
Red morocco by Cuzin; in 1/2 red morocco box.
Classification
Department