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Additional authors

1. Audinot, Nicolas-Médard, 1732-1801.
2. Arnould, M., 1743-1795.
3. Sedaine de Sarcy, M. (Jean-François), 1762-
4. Théâtre de l'ambigu comique.

Description

1. [6] leaves (4 folded) : col. ill.; 12 cm. (16mo)

Alternative title

1. Ambigu comique.
2. Serrail à l'encan.

Subject

1. Etching, French > Specimens > 18th century
2. Metamorphic pictures > France > 18th century
3. Almanacs, French

Genre/Form

1. Metamorphic pictures – France – 18th century.

Call number

1. Spencer Coll. French 1785 83-56

Note

1. 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.
2. Variant of Audinot's device on t.p.: Sicut pueri audi nos.
3. Imprint from first leaf of almanac.
4. Engraved throughout (except almanac, printed in red and black).
5. Illustrations: Hand-colored etchings.
6. 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)

1. Bibliothèque nationale cat.

Title

1. Le Sérail a l'encan : petite pièce turque en I. acte, réprésentée au Théatre de l'ambigu comique.

Imprint

1. [A Paris : Chez Valleyre l'aîné, 1785].

Indexed in:

1. Bibliothèque nationale cat., v. 4, col. 529; v. 5, col. 183; v. 169, col. 540.

Local note

1. Provenance: Félicie Meunié d'Hostel (bookplate).

Added author

1. Audinot, Nicolas-Médard, 1732-1801.
2. Arnould, M., 1743-1795.
3. Sedaine de Sarcy, M. (Jean-François), 1762-
4. Théâtre de l'ambigu comique.

Added title

1. Ambigu comique.
2. Serrail à l'encan.

Research call number

1. Spencer Coll. French 1785 83-56