Tancrede
Subtitle: tragédie en vers croisés, et en cinq actes : représentée par les Comédiens français ordinaires du roi, le 3 septembre 1760
Contributors: Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764, dedicatee; La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788, ill; Tardieu, P. F. (Pierre François), 1757-1822, engraver; Lekain, Henri Louis Cain, 1728-1778, performer; Grandval, Charles-François Racot de, 1710-1784, performer; Prault, Louis-Laurent, -1803?, bookseller; Comédie-Française; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez Prault, petit-fils, libraire, quai des Augustins, la deuxieme boutique au-dessu de la rue Gilles-Cœur, à l'Immortalité
Published: 1761
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Drama; French drama (Tragedy)
Work titles: Tancrède
Notes: First performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la rue des Fossés Saint-Germain. Cf. CÉSAR.

"Acteurs": half title verso; includes performers; lists M. Lekain in role of Tancrède, M. Grandval in role of Orbassan.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces throughout, decorated initial.

Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of Voltaire signed Delatour [i.e. La Tour], engraved plates depicting scenes from the opera by P.F. Tardieu after originals by L.P.

"A Madame la Marquise de Pompadour": p. [5]-12 (2nd count).

Signatures: A⁸ (A⁶+F7-8) B-E⁸ F⁸ (-F7-8).

Brenner, C.D. French plays, 1700-1789 (1947), 11629