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Recueil de romances historiques, tendres et burlesques
tant anciennes que modernes : avec les airs notés
2 volumes of music : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Title of 2nd v.: Recueil de romances. Tome second.
At least 25 of the airs are by the compiler. Cf. "Lusse, de," Grove Music Online, viewed June 15. 2011.
The 1st v. includes engraved frontispiece signed: Ch. Eisen, inv.; De Longueil, sculp.
"Supplément, contenant les véritables airs de plusieurs romances qui ont été inférées dans le premier volume, avec des airs nouveaux": [iv] p., [8] pages of music at end of t. 2.
One of the Cushing Library/Dawson French Collection copies (t. 1) contains the supplement but the other copy is wanting the supplement.
Among the credited composers are Bernard, Duny, J.J. Rousseau, Kohaut, Papavoine, de la Borde, de la Garde, Collet, Albaneze [or] Albanèse, Péan, de Mondonville, Gaviniez [or] Gaviniés, Desbrosses, Goblain, Dorat, Le Jai, Dota, Legat, Rodolphe, de la Place, Monsigni [or] Monsigny,Philidor, d'Herbain. Gretri [Grétry?], and Pouteau,