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 [3] de 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: 70
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Drama
Other titles: Proserpine :
Work titles: Proserpine
Notes: In five acts with prologue; libretto by Philippe Quinault, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses; first performed 3 February 1680. Cf. Grove music online.

Actual day of performance omitted on t.p.

Signatures: pi⁴ ²pi² A-H⁴ I².

Two known states: one with p. 21, 67, 68 misnumbered 19, 66, 70 respectively; one with p. 27, 67, 68 misnumbered 25, 66, 70 respectively.

Engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and head-piece on p. [5] by J. Le Pautre after designs by J. Berain.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials throughout.

"Acteurs du prologue": p. [3]; "Acteurs de la tragedie": p. [12]; both include performers.

Sonneck, O.G.T. Librettos, p. 900

Schmidt, C.B. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques, LLC8-3

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Indecipherable owner's signature dated 1766 on t.p., p. 68.

Partially cropped owner's signature on t.p.: Dr. Paul Barret, médecin de la marine de [...]

From the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd.

Error in paging in this copy: p. 27, 67, 68 misnumbered 25, 66, 70 respectively.

Error in paging in this copy: pages 21, 67, 68 misnumbered 19, 66, 70 respectively.

Plate trimmed with slight loss to image.

Bound in later half brown calf with gilt-tooled spine and decorated brown and yellow boards.

Bound in modern marbled paper wrappers; in case, 31 cm.