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Le Sérail a l'encan : petite pièce turque en I. acte, réprésentée au Théatre de l'ambigu comique.
- Title
- Le Sérail a l'encan : petite pièce turque en I. acte, réprésentée au Théatre de l'ambigu comique.
- Publication
- [A Paris : Chez Valleyre l'aîné, 1785].
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. French 1785 83-56 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- [6] leaves (4 folded) : col. ill.; 12 cm. (16mo)
- Alternative Title
- Ambigu comique.
- Serrail à l'encan.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Metamorphic pictures – France – 18th century.
- Note
- Almanac with illustrated song texts (tunes indicated by titles of airs) from plays produced 1780-1781 at the Théâtre de l'ambigu comique, Paris (a company of child actors founded and directed by N.-M. Audinot with J.-F. Arnould): Le Sérail à l'encan (published as Le Serrail à l'encan, 1783), attributed to J.-F. Sedaine de Sarcy (cf. Soleinne: Bibliothèque dramatique, III, 225), Audinot, Arnould or M.-J. Sedaine (cf. Barbier, IV, 474); Le Prince noir et blanc (published 1782), attributed to Audinot and Arnould by Soleinne.
- Variant of Audinot's device on t.p.: Sicut pueri audi nos.
- Imprint from first leaf of almanac.
- Engraved throughout (except almanac, printed in red and black).
- Illustrations: Hand-colored etchings.
- Consists of green paper wrappers; illustrated t.p. (conjugate leaf blank); "Almanach d'agenda, année commune 1786" on 2 conjugate double-width folded leaves of light blue paper; and folded sheet of plates "à retombe" (metamorphoses) with text (4 figs. on recto and 8 half-figs. on verso, cut and folded to form 2 double-width folded leaves, each with 2 flaps at top and bottom, producing 16 possible images). Issued in case of stiff blue-green paper with title: Ambigu comique.
- Indexed In (note)
- Bibliothèque nationale cat.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1785 83-56
- OCLC
- NYPG83-B41806
- Title
- Le Sérail a l'encan : petite pièce turque en I. acte, réprésentée au Théatre de l'ambigu comique.
- Imprint
- [A Paris : Chez Valleyre l'aîné, 1785].
- Indexed In:
- Bibliothèque nationale cat., v. 4, col. 529; v. 5, col. 183; v. 169, col. 540.
- Local Note
- Provenance: Félicie Meunié d'Hostel (bookplate).
- Added Author
- Audinot, Nicolas-Médard, 1732-1801.Arnould, M., 1743-1795.Sedaine de Sarcy, M. (Jean-François), 1762-Théâtre de l'ambigu comique.
- Added Title
- Ambigu comique.Serrail à l'encan.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1785 83-56