Le milicien
Subtitle: comédie en un acte, meslée d'ariettes
By: par M. Anseaume ; la musique de M. Duny [i.e. Duni] ; représentée pour la premiere fois à Versailles devant Leurs Majestés, le 29 décembre 1762, & à Paris sur le théâtre de la Comédie italienne le 1 janvier 1763
Publisher: Chez Duchesne, libraire, rue Saint Jacques, au-dessous de la fontaine Saint Benoît, au Temple du Goût
Published: 1763
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Milicien
Notes: First performed at Versailles in the Théâtre de la Cour; first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne. Cf. Wild.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces; head-piece on p. [3] signed Caron.

"Acteurs": t.p. verso; includes performers; lists M. La Ruette [i.e. Laruette] in roles of Lucas.

Includes music (black notation, set in movable type) on p. 68-69.

Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁴.

In 2 known states: with and without leaf of publisher's advertisements at end (p. [71]-[72]).

Not in RISM, Sonneck.

Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera, col. 267

Wild, N. Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 1216

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down: Holland House.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

No. 7 in a volume of 7 French librettos published in Paris, 1761-1763.

Text block and boards detached from spine, several leaves loose.

This copy with publisher's advertisements at end.

Trimmed to 19 cm; without E4.

This copy without bookseller's advertisements at end.

No. 9 in a volume of 11 French librettos and plays published in France, 1756-1763.

This copy without bookseller's advertisements at end.

Bound in contemporary brown calf with raised bands; in case.

Bound in contemporary brown calf with gilt-stamped spine and maroon sheep spine label: Receuil de pieces dopera [sic].