Collection de portraits des artistes des théâtres de Paris dessinés et lithographiés d'après nature
By: par Colin ...
Publisher: Publiée par Francisque Noël, artiste éditeur
Published: 1823
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Actors; French
Notes: Cover-title.

Issued in parts (14, containing 5 plates each?); plates 8 & 50 are dated 1823 & 1824 respectively; apparently also issued with the plates colored.

The numbering of the plates jumps from 64 to 67, with 1 unnumbered plate in between; plates [13], [26], & [69] unnumbered; plate 47 misnumbered 46.

20 lithographs are signed by Louis Marin-Lavigne, the rest by Colin; lithographed by C.E.P. Motte & others.

Bequest; Edwin Binney 3rd; 4 August 1986; BB 66.

Bound in quarter red morocco and marbled boards.

Imperfect: none of the lithographed wrappers to the parts, containing cover-titles, preserved; all after plate 30 wanting (title and imprint transcribed from another edition).

Plates printed on proof paper and mounted.

Original lithographed wrappers for the 1st livraison preserved; in the central cartouche of lower panel of the ornamental border is lithographed the word "Théâtre", with below it is ms. "Français"; livraison number (1er) also added in ms.; bound in half dark brown morocco; in half morocco case.
Table of contents: title: (by plate number:) 1-5, 16-25, 36-40, Théâtre français.; title: 6-10, [69], Théâtre du vaudeville.; title: 11-15, Théâtre de l'Ambigu comique.; title: 26-30, 61-64, Théâtre royal de l'Opéra comique.; title: 31-35, 68, 70, Théâtre de la Porte St. Martin.; title: 41-45, 51-55, Théâtre royal de l'Odéon.; title: 46-50, 71, Académie royale de musique.; title: 56-60, Théâtre des variétés.; title: [65 or 66], 67, Panorama dramatique.