Lettre sur la musique françoise
By: par J.J. Rousseau
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1753
Place of publication: Paris?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Querelle des Bouffons; Opera
Notes: The "avertissement" on p. [3]-[4] (1st count) exists in 2 different settings: one version lacks a signature mark, ends with the words "... plus graves sujets de morale," and there is a printer's ornament on p. [4]; the second version has the signature mark "a" on p. [3], ends with the words "... au moins pour moi-même," and lacks an ornament.

Signatures: pi² A-E⁸ F⁴ G².

RISM B/VI/2, p. 734

Gift; C.C. Stillman; 31 October 1925.

Gift; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward; 30 December 1998; 2004TW-1150.

Owner's name gilt-stamped on front cover: F.C. Raben.

Ownership stamp on front flyleaf and t.p.: Tilhører Grevskabet Christiansholm.

This copy includes the setting of "avertissement" without a signature mark.

Bound in modern tan calf, spine, covers, and edges gilt by R. Wallis.

This copy includes the setting of "avertissement" with a signature mark.

No. 1 in volume of 7 opera librettos and treatises, published in Paris in 1753 and 1754.

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