MANUSCRITS of Albert GLATIGNY, Jean-Hippolyte... - Lot 332 - Marie-Saint Germain

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MANUSCRITS of Albert GLATIGNY, Jean-Hippolyte... - Lot 332 - Marie-Saint Germain
MANUSCRITS of Albert GLATIGNY, Jean-Hippolyte TISSERANT, NADAR, Louis LEMERCIER de NEUVILLE]. Autograph manuscripts composed of 3 complete pieces: Albert GLATIGNY, Scapin Maquereau, 5 sheets including title - Jean-Hippolyte TISSERANT, Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné, 23 sheets including title - NADAR, La Grande Symphonie des punaises, 9 sheets. Preceded by an invitation addressed to Auguste Poulet-Malassis, partly autograph, signed by Louis LEMERCIER de NEUVILLE for the opening performance of the theatre on 27 May [1862] bearing the inscription "Bon pour un dessus de cheminée"; and an autograph poem, 3 pages by the same author, entitled "Ronde des sergents de ville".Collection in-folio, red morocco, gilt satyr's head on angle, spine decorated with the same motif, rubbed nerves, elegant gilt inner border (Masson-Debonnelle). 2 clippings from booksellers' catalogues indicate that this collection contained a pencil note by Baudelaire, which no longer appears here. Le Théâtre érotique de la rue de la Santé was published "with a priapic [merdifique] frontispiece drawn and engraved by S.P.Q.R. [Félicien Rops]" by Auguste Poulet-Malassis, in the year of joy 1864 in Brussels Volume I contains the following pieces: La Grisette et l'Étudiant, a play in one act by the author of Les Bas-fonds de la société. Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné, a philosophical drama in three acts, by the vicar of Wakefield (from the Odéon). Les Jeux de l'amour et du bazar, a comedy of manners in one act by the author of the Physiology of the Barber. Un caprice, by the author of Les Tourniquets. In volume II: Scapin maquereau, a comedy in two acts and in verse by the author of Antres malsains. Signe d'argent, a vaudeville in three acts by one of Vadé's two notaries in collaboration with Fourniquet. La Grande Symphonie des punaises, lyrics by Doctor Quérard (from Chartres) in collaboration with the Géant (from Boulevard des Capucines). Music by the Jettatore (of the Passage Choiseul). With the exception of the last one, all the plays collected in these two volumes had been performed privately, during the year 1862, in a room located in Batignolles, rue de la Santé (later called rue de Saussure). It was not an obscene strip-tease show, a sort of ancestor of the Théâtre des deux boules, featuring bodies in love with voluptuousness, but, more simply, a puppet theatre. Founded by Amédée Rolland, Jean du Boys and the brothers Edmond and Camille Wittersheinck on an idea of the writer-puppeteer Lemercier de Neuville and inaugurated on 27 May 1862, it was closed at the end of the following year. Lemonnyer III-1203, Enfer 1312, P.C. 30.b.l3, Launay 281, Pia 1407, Dutel A-1054 for the Poulet-Malassis edition. Provenance: Got de la Comédie-Française, H. Leclerc (Drouot, 23 October 1906, lot 137), ex-libris Majolier, ex-libris J.B Rund.
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