Ballet de la jeunesse
Subtitle: divertissement meslé de comedie & de musique : representé devant Sa Majesté à Versailles le janvier 1686
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1686
Place of publication: Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris [Amsterdam?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Ballets; Librettos; Specimens; Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Other titles: Ballet de la jeunesse (Choreographic work : Beauchamp)
Work titles: Ballet de la jeunesse
Notes: Libretto for a ballet in 3 acts with prologue.

Text by A. Dancourt; music by M.R. de La Lande; first performed at Versailles, 28 January 1686. See Grove music online (WWW site, 20 January 2010).

Printer's mark (Rahir M.58) on t.-p.

Engraved frontispiece.

May have been published in a collection titled, Recueil des opera, des balets, & des plus belles pieces en musique; Houghton Theatre Collection copy lacks collective title page.

Performers named in text.

Sonneck, O.G.T. Librettos, I, p. 196.

Unidentified bookplate of former owner on front pastedown.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

No. 8 in a volume of 9 opera and ballet librettos, published Amsterdam?, 1682-1686.

Bound in contemporary brown calf; raised bands on spine with vellum label on which is blind-stamped spine title, "Tragedie."