Les Arsacides
Subtitle: tragédie en six actes
By: par M. Peyraud de Beaussol ; récitée au théâtre, pour la premiere fois, par les Comédiens françois ordinaires du roi, le mercredi 26 juillet 1775
Publisher: Chez la veuve Duchesne, libraire, rue St-Jacques, au-dessous de la fontaine Saint-Benoît, au Temple du Goût
Published: 1775
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Drama; History; French drama
Work titles: Arsacides
Notes: First performed in Paris in the Salle des Machines. Cf. CÉSAR.

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces; several head-pieces signed Beugnet.

"Préface": p. [v]-xxiij.

"Acteurs": p. xxiv; does not include performers.

Printer from colophon.

Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ A-G⁸ H⁴ (leaf a3 missigned a4; leaf H4 blank).

Brenner, C.D. French plays, 1700-1789 (1947), 9888

Purchase; Bradstreet's; 4 April 1995; 94-565 (215); A. Lowell fd.; Bought with *94-565 (1).

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Stitched in blue wrappers; in case, 27 cm.

No. 4 in a volume of 5 French librettos and plays published 1756-1776.

List of contents written in pencil on back paste-down.

Trimmed to 19 cm.

Bound in contemporary brown calf with raised bands and gilt-stamped spine; title stamped on spine: Rec[ueil] de theatre tom[e] XVIII.