Ballet royal de la nuict
Subtitle: diuisé en quatre parties, ou quatre veilles : et dansé par Sa Majesté le 23. feurier 1653
Publisher: Par Robert Ballard, seul imprimeur du roy pour la musique, demeurant ruë Sainct Iean de Beauuais, au Mont Parnasse
Published: 1653
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Ballets; Librettos
Other titles: Ballet royal de la nuit
Notes: In verse, with a prose synopsis of each scene.

Two issues are known. In the presumed first issue, the last line of text on p. 1 begins: battu ... In the presumed second issue, gatherings A-L have been reset, and the last text line on p. 1 begins: milieu ...

By I. de Benserade. Cf. C.I. Silin, Benserade.

Signatures: pi² A-R².

Error in paging: p. 68 misnumbered 28.

The dancers for each scene are named.

Without the music.

Tchemerzine, II, 125.

From the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd.

Red leather label of Mortimer L. Schiff.

First issue.

Imperfect: wanting p. 47-48; t.p. mutilated.

Microfilm.

Microfilm; incomplete: includes second play only.

No. 1 in a volume of 18 works with binder's title: Recueil de ballets representés à la cour de 1653 à 1664.

Second issue.

Bound with J. de Mairet, La Sidonie (Paris, [1643]).

Imperfect: top right corner of t.-p. mutilated, last 2 letters of "Ballet" supplied in ms.

First issue.

Bound in recent marbled paper wrappers; in case, 28 cm.

Bound in light brown morocco, spine & edges gilt, marbled endleaves, by Rivière & Son.

Bound in contemporary vellum; t.p. mounted, upper margins wormed and repaired; in buckram case, 24 cm.