Lettres historiques sur tous les spectacles de Paris

First edition.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Tan morocco title label. Tear with holes at head. 2 holes along the upper joint at tail. Rubbed and scuffed throughout. Browning framing the first 3 leaves including the title page.
According to the collation, the second part lacks a half-title or title for the second and third letters. However, we believe that the same title was used for these different parts and that it was placed only at the head of the first letter of the second part. The collections sold did not always contain all the parts with different pagination found in this copy. For example, the copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France does not have these 2 parts (second letter and third letter of the second part); it contains only the last two letters attached to the first two, without the second part.
First letter on the Comédie française. Second letter on the opera. Second part on the Comédie italienne (three letters). Two final letters on the fairs of S. Germain and S. Laurent. The author presents the contemporary situation of spectacles in Paris by examining the Comédie française, the opera for which the author lists recent performances, musicians and composers, the Comédie italienne and the spectacles of the fairs.