Le pere de famille
Subtitle: comédie en cinq actes, et en prose, avec un discours sur la poésie dramatique
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1758
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: French drama
Work titles: Père de famille
Notes: First performed in Marseille at the Théâtre de Marseille, November 1760. Cf. CÉSAR.

Dedication: p. iij-xxij at beginning; signed Diderot.

"Personnages": p. xxiij-xxjx [i.e. xxiv] at beginning; does not include performers.

Error in pagination: xxiv (pt. 1) misnumbered xxjx.

"De la poësie dramatique ... II. partie": xij, 195 p. at end.

Last p. blank.

Brenner, C.D.^^French plays, 1700-1789 (1947), 5612

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

No. 5 in 4th volume of a 4-volume collection of French librettos, published 1758-1772.

Bound in contemporary brown calf with gilt-stamped title Pieces de theatre Tom IV on red sheep spine labels.