Tancrede : tragédie, en vers et en cinq actes : représentée par les Comediens français ordinaires du roi, le 3 septembre 1760.

Tancrede : tragédie, en vers et en cinq actes : représentée par les Comediens français ordinaires du roi, le 3 septembre 1760.

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Author / Creator:Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Imprint:A Paris : Chez Prault, petit-fils, libraire, quai des Augustins, la deuxieme boutique au-dessus de la rue Gilles-Cœur, à l'Immortalité, 1760.
Description:12, 80 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Language:French
Subject:
Normans -- Italy -- Sicily -- History -- Drama.
Normans.
Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 800-1016 -- Drama.
Italy -- Sicily.
Drama.
History.
Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy imperfect: Wanting title-page and A¹. Bound with: Belloy, Pierre-Laurent Buyrette. Titus. Paris, Moutard, 1780.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8453698
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Other authors / contributors:La Tour, Maurice Quentin de, 1704-1788, ill.
Tardieu, Pierre François, 1711-1771, engraver.
Notes:"Le prix est de trente sols."
Early state of the first edition, with t.p. dated 1760; without the cancels in sigs. A and B. Cf. Henderson, John S. Voltaire's Tancrède. 1968. p. 51-81 and Appendices I-V, VIII. Cf. also BN, v. 214, col. 804, no. 1502 (describes a copy with t.p. dated 1760, but with cancels in sigs. A and B).
Signatures: A-E⁸ F⁶. Leaves A3,4 signed "Aij," "Aiij."
Illustrations: 3 prints : engraving ; full-page. Comprise frontispiece port. of Voltaire, after M.Q. de La Tour, and 2 ill. signed: L.P. delin., P.F. Tardieu sculp (2nd ill. in 1st state, with artist's initials misprinted as "L.R.").

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