L'inconnu : Comédie meslée d'ornemens & de musique / par T. Corneille ... et al.
1676
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Title
L'inconnu : Comédie meslée d'ornemens & de musique / par T. Corneille ... et al.
Created/published
Paris : Chez J. Ribou, 1676.
Description
pages ; 16 cm (12mo)
Associated name
Charpentier, Marc Antoine, author.
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Call number
FAST ACC 271707 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment. From dealer's description: "Corneille, Thomas: L'Inconnu. Comédie meslée d'ornamens et de musique. A Paris, chez Jean Ribou, au Palais, dans la Salle Royale, à l'Image S. Louis. 1676. First complete edition. 12mo. (14.2 cms. x 9.5 cms.), pp. [8] 114. Woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut ornament and initials. Light browning, a very good copy, bound in contemporary stiffened vellum (darkened), title (faded) to spine. First complete edition of this musical comedy by Thomas Corneille (1625-1709). A libretto (containing descriptive text and words to songs only) was published the previous year (cf. Harvard catalogue). The work was written in collaboration with the journalist Jean Donneau de Visé (1638-1710) and was based on his work 'Nouvelles galantes' (1669). The plot concerns a secret admirer and his methods of seduction. Corneille had the distinction or misfortune to be younger brother to the great Pierre Corneille (1606-1684). OCLC locates copies outside France in Williams College, Trinity College Dublin, Cambridge, Warwick, and British Library."|Ordered from Leo Cadogan Rare Books Ltd, D9353, 2019-10-07, Cat. October 2019, item 14.
Folger accession
271707