Recueil general des opera
Subtitle: représentez devant Sa Majesté, depuis leur etablissement ...
Publisher: Chez Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du roy pour la musique, ruë S. Jean de Beauvais, au Mont-Parnasse.
Published: 1703
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Notes: Par exprés commandement de Sa Majesté.

Title vignettes (incl. French royal arms).

A collection of separately printed librettos with general t.-p.

Imperfect: volume 2 wanting (according to a manuscript "Auertissement" in volume 1, the collection consists of 13 pieces in 2 volumes); Alceste lacks pages 49-56, and Cadmus, all after page 62.

In volume 1, each leaf except the general and special title pages, and the table has been trimmed and inlaid.

Inserted in Alceste is an engraved port. of Louis XIV by S. Thomassin after Rigaud.
Table of contents: title: t. 1. Alceste. 1674.; title: Thesée. 1675.; title: Atys. 1676.; title: Isis. 1677.; title: Cadmus. 1678.; title: Bellerophon. 1680.