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Title

Tancrede : tragédie, en vers croisés, et en cinq actes : représentée par les Comédiens français ordinaires du roi, le 3 septembre 1760.

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Publication

A Paris : Chez Prault, petit-fils, libraire, quai des Augustins, la deuxieme boutique au-dessus de la rue Gilles-Cœur, à l'Immortalité, 1761.

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Additional Authors

• La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788.
• Tardieu, Pierre François, 1711-1771.
• Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Description

12, 80, 16 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 19 cm. (8vo)

Subject

• Tancred, approximately 1075-1112 > Drama
• Normans > Italy > Sicily > History > Drama
• Sicily (Italy) > History > 800-1016 > Drama

Note

• The t.p. (A2) is a cancel. The original t.p. was dated 1760 and read: Tancrede : tragédie, en vers et en cinq actes ... Le prix est de trente sols. Cf. BN, col. 804, no. 1502.
• Later state of the first edition, with the usual cancels in sigs. A and B. Distinguished from a rev. ed. with the same cancel t.p. (issued later in 1761) by the absence of a date following the dedication, the inclusion of actors' names in the cast list (headed "Acteurs" here; "Personnages" in the rev. ed.), and other points. Cf. Henderson, siglum 61P3; Henderson, John S. Voltaire's Tancrède. 1968. p. 51-81 and Appendices I-V, VIII.
• This copy includes typographical variants in sigs. C-F representing states designated by Henderson (in Voltaire's Tancrède) as "C-3," "D-4," "E-2" and "F-3," and the later of two states noted by him for the 2 cancels in sig. B. For differences from copies in BN, cf. Henderson, Voltaire's Tancrède, Appendix V, copies 61a-b, d-f.
• Signatures: A⁸ (±A2,5) B⁸ (±B3,7) C-E⁸ F⁶ [superscript chi]A⁸. Leaves A3,4 signed "Aij," "Aiij."
• Illustrations: 3 prints : engraving ; full-page. Comprise frontispiece port. of Voltaire, after M.Q. de La Tour, and 2 ill. signed: L.P. delin., P.F. Tardieu sculp (later state of 2nd ill., with the artist's initials corrected from "L.R.").
• Woodcut t.p. ornament (cluster of flowers with bunch of grapes); ornamental head- and tailpieces.
• Publisher's advertisements: 16 p. at end (not present in some copies).
• Provenance: P.P. Garnier (autograph, dated May 1816); Francis M. Weld (autograph, dated 1950). Some ms. annotations, perhaps in the hand of Garnier, in the dedication.

Indexed In (note)

• BN
• Bengesco, G. Voltaire
• Henderson, J.S. Introduction to Tancrède, section "Manuscripts and editions." In Voltaire. Works, 1968, v. 49B, 97-121

Provenance (note)

• Martin J. Gross Collection.

Call Number

*KGV (Voltaire. Tancrede. 1761) 01-123

OCLC

• 8587327
• NYPG01-B2789

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Title

Tancrede : tragédie, en vers croisés, et en cinq actes : représentée par les Comédiens français ordinaires du roi, le 3 septembre 1760.

Imprint

A Paris : Chez Prault, petit-fils, libraire, quai des Augustins, la deuxieme boutique au-dessus de la rue Gilles-Cœur, à l'Immortalité, 1761.

Indexed In:

BN, v. 214, col. 805, no. 1503-1508

Bengesco, G. Voltaire, I, no. 234 (=BN 1508)

Henderson, J.S. Introduction to Tancrède, section "Manuscripts and editions." In Voltaire. Works, 1968, v. 49B, 97-121, pages 102-103, siglum 61P1

Provenance

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary marbled calf, gilt; brown morocco spine label.

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Added Author

La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788. Illustrator

Tardieu, Pierre François, 1711-1771. Engraver

Garnier, P. P. Former owner

Weld, Francis M. Former owner

Martin J. Gross Collection. NN

Research Call Number

*KGV (Voltaire. Tancrede. 1761) 01-123