1863 Duranty : Théatre des Marionnettes du Jardin Des Tuileries : Puppet Theatre

Théatre des Marionnettes du Jardin Des Tuileries

Texte et composition des dessins par M. Duranty

Paris: Imprimerie de Dubuisson et Cie, 1863. First Edition. Quarto, 11 by 7.5 in. (28 x 19 cm). Aurter leather binding with marble boards. Illustrated with 24 hand-coloured plates and with 25 colour vignette illustrations laid-down on text pages within a printed double-rule border. 2 ff. ii, 387, 3 pp.

CONDITION
A good first edition. The leather binding is good with light signs of age. Endpapers good and inner hinges sound and with no cracking. All contents present. Pages good but with some light spotting and grubbiness but generally good (see images for lots of examples of the pages.

Théâtre des puonnettes du Jardin des Tuileries is a collection of twenty-four pieces written by Louis Edmond Duranty, published in 1862.

It is a collection with hero Polichinelle, Pierrot and Arlequin, although these are sometimes absent from certain pieces.

After a short opinion to the reader where the author explains the difficulty of writing a written puppet theatre, the comedy being mainly visual. It expresses the power of this art that attracts attention with its oddities (decorated with the shrimp giant things and the tiny objects grown exaggeratedly). This is followed by the texts of the pieces below, all beginning with an explanatory and sometimes philosophical foreword, as well as the list of characters.

CONTENTS

    Police practitioner
    The Neighbours
    The Tragedy of Harlequin
    The Malle de Berlingue
    Polichinelle and the Gigogne Mother
    Man in the Cabinate
    Pierrot and the Pastry
    Marriage of reason
    The Tonneau
    Cassandra and his servants
    The Gripandouille Boudins
    The Coal Bag
    The Grand'Main
    King Mirambole's Comet
    The Pluralists in spite of themselves
    The Fortune of the chimney sweep
    Polichinelle withdrawn from the world
    The Black Chicken
    The Merchant of Sticks
    Exercise impossible
    The Columbine Mirror
    The Two Friends
    Cataclysterium Drugs
    The Return

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