Naïs
Subtitle: opera pour la paix, representé par l'Academie royale de musique, pour la premiere fois, le mardi vingt-deux avril 1749
Publisher: Aux depens de l'Academie on trouvera les livres de paroles à la salle de l'Opera & à l'Academie royale de musique, rue S. Nicaise
Published: 1749
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Naïs
Notes: Libretto for an opera (pastorale héroïque) in 3 acts.

"Les Paroles de Monsieur de Cahusac. La Musique de Monsieur Rameau"--P. [2].

Prologue is titled, L'accord des dieux.

"Prix XXX sols."

Signatures: A-G⁴ H².

Includes lists of performers (singers and dancers) and stage directions.

Deposit; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward; 7 December 2001; 2003TW-63.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Armorial bookplate on front flyleaf: "P.J.S. Richardson bequest, 1963, The Royal Academy of Dancing."

Name of former owner, "Bibliotheque de Villeneuve," written in ink on title page.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

No. 3 in volume with 5 other French librettos and one French medical treatise.

Bound in contemporary crimson morocco, with covers, spine, and edges gilt.

Bound in quarter brown leather and brown paste paper-covered boards, edges sprinkled red.

Contemporary multi-color decorated paper wrappers; in prefab, 31 cm.