Proserpine
Subtitle: tragedie en musique : ornée d'entrées de ballet, de machines, & de changements de theatre : representée devant Sa Majesté à Saint Germain en Laye le troisiéme fevrier 1680
Publisher: Par Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du roy pour la musique, ruë Saint Jean de Beauvais, au Mont Parnasse
Published: 1680
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Drama
Work titles: Proserpine
Notes: Without the music.

Libretto by Philippe Quinault.

Copies are known in variant states, with portions of signatures A and F in variant settings.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-K⁴.

Error in paging: in some copies, p. 17 is misnumbered 37.

Engraved view of one of the stage settings by J. Le Pautre after a design by J. Berain.

Woodcut printer's device on t.p.

Includes cast list.

Schmidt, C.B. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques, LLC8-2.1.

From the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd.

No. 2 in a volume labeled on spine: Recveil d'opera. Tom. I.

This copy in variant state, with portions of sig. F reset; p. 17 misnumbered '37'.

No. 3 in a volume of 8 French opera librettos labeled on spine: Recveil d'opera.

This copy in variant state, with portions of sigs. A and F reset; p. 17 misnumbered '37'.

Imperfect: wanting the plate.

No. 7 in volume with 14 other libretti by Quinault.

Bound in contemporary acid-stained calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red; in green cloth case, 26 cm.

Bound in contemporary acid-stained calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked); dampstains.

Bound in contemporary brown calf, spine gilt, edges stained red, marbled endleaves.