LULLY / QUINAULT - Thésée, Tragédie. Paris, Académie Royale - Lot 309

LULLY / QUINAULT - Thésée, Tragédie. Paris, Académie Royale de Musique, 1765. In-4, Paris, Aux dépens de l'Académie, chez P. Lormel, imprimeur de ladite Académie, rue du Foin, à l'Image Sainte-Geneviève, red morocco with gilded fleur-de-lys lace, central coat of arms of Madame Adélaïde, fourth daughter of Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska, ornate spine, fillets on the edges, pink linings. Edition of the libretto of the famous lyric tragedy first performed in 1675, printed for the 1765 revival. Libretto of the opera Thésée, a lyric tragedy first performed in Paris on January 11, 1675 at the Académie Royale de Musique. The title page mentions the revivals of 1707, 1721, 1729, 1744, 1754 and the return to the theater on December 8, 1765. Official print of the Académie Royale de Musique for the 1765 performance.