Le Petit Moissonneur des Théâtres by [Théâtre du Vaudeville],

Fine. Le Petit Moissonneur des Théâtres. à Paris : Le Fuel, libraire, Editeur, Rue St. Jacques, No. 54, [1826]. Hand-colored plates, portraits of actors and actresses in roles for which they were remembered. John Grand-Carteret dates this title vers 1825 and lists it as Number 2030 (as 32mo) in his exhaustive Les Almanachs Français Bibliographie-Iconographie, Paris 1896. Daniel François Schleurleer in his Almanakken der Muziekbibliotek dates this very rare title to 1827 and as being 16mo. Listed as N. 157 in the Revue Encyclopédique; ou Analyse Raisonée; Tome XL, Paris: 1828, lists it as bound in-18, with 192 pages avec gravures coloriées. A copy was reported sold in 1893 at the sale of the library of Damascène Morgand, I: 4178. This copy is in-16, 105 mm x 70 mm, [1 blank; half-title, with Imprimerie de Jules Didot Ainé, rue du Pont-de-Lodi, no. 6 on the verso; interlined frontispiece of a boy harvesting a sheaf in the Champ de Thalie; 192 pages of text; Le Souvenir des Dames, with engraved title-page, 14 pages, for each of the twelve months for memoranda; a final blank]. 14 engravings, 13 of the portraits of the actors and actresses of the day. Bound in quarter tan calf on marbled boards. Rebacked, otherwise a fine copy. Among the other portraits of actors and actresses is a portrait of Mlle. Saint-Ange in the role of Marguerite from LEtameur, ou La Place Maubert, Tableau en un Acte written by MM. Gabriel, Dumersan, et Brazier which played at the Théâtre des Variétés . See LIntérmédiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux, 1898. List of illustrations: frontispiece of a boy harvesting a sheaf of wheat in the Champ de Thalie; M. Le Peintre in the role of M. Pothin, in Le Voisin; M. Vernet in the cross-dressing role of Isidor in Les Alsaciennes, ou les Marchandes de Balais, Folie-vaudeville en un Acte by MM. Gabriel and Brazier, first performed on 19 July 1826, at the Théâtre des Variétés ; M. Gontier in the role of Chavigny in Le Diplomate, Comedie-Vaudeville en deux actes by MM. scribe et Germain Delavigne at the Theatre de Madame (Gymnase Drammatique); M. Phillipe in the role of M. Jovial in M. Jovial, ou LHuissier Chansonnier, Vaudeville en un Acte, written by MM. Théaulon et Choquart at the Théâtres des Nouveautés; Mme Dussert in the role of La Mère au bal et la Fille à la Maison, Comédie-Vaudeville written by M. Théaulon; M. Brunet in the role of M. Courtaud, in La Journée dun Flanneur, Comédie-Vaudeville en Quatre Tableaux, written by MM. Gabriel. Dumersan, et Brazier at the Théâtre des Variétés; Mme Guillemin in the role of Mme Durand in LAuvergnate, ou la Principale Locataire, Comédie-Vaudeville en un acte, written by MM. Gabriel, Brazier, and Dumersan at the Théâtre de Vaudeville; M. Potier in the role of lavocat contre, in Les Passages et les Rues, ou la Guerre Déclarée, Vaudeville-a-propos en un Acte, written by MM. Gabriel, Dumersan, et Brazier at the Théâtre des Variétés; Melle Élisa-Jacops, in the role of Anna, in Le Châlet, Comédie en un Acte, Mélée de Couplets ; written by MM. Gabriel, Dumersan, and Brazier at the Théâtre des Variétés; and, Mme Carmouche (Jenny Verprée) in the role of La Reine de Seize Ans, Vaudeville en un Acte, written by M. Bayard at the Théâtre de Madame (Gymnase Drammatique). Four other theatrical presentations are included : La nuit dun Jourer, ou le Petit Béverley Comédie-Vaudeville en un Acte written by M. Aude at the Théâtre des Variétés (also known as Beverley dAngoulême) about an uncle who disguises himself en Juif pour guérir son neveu de la maudite passion de jeu ; Le Baron allemand, ou le Blocus de la Salle à Manger, Comédie-Vaudeville en un Acte, written by MM. Jules and Armand at the Théâtre des Variétés ; Les Ecoliers en promenade, Comédie-Vaudeville en un Acte, written by MM. Gabriel, Dumersan, and Brazier ; and, Jean de Calais, Comédie en deux Actes, Mélée de Couplets, written by MM Émile Vanderburck et Étienne at the Théâtre des Variétés. A total of fourteen theatrical presentations, ten of them accompanied with a hand-colored engraving of the actor who made the role memorable, are given in synopsis and with excerpts of the laugh-lines of the day. A rare title, four copies are recorded.