Beaumarchais,(P.A.)Caron de. La folle journee ou le mariage de Figaro, comedie en cinq actes et en prose. Representee pour la premiere fois a Paris par les comediens ordinaires du Roi, le 27 Avril 1784. Amsterdam (= Paris ?), n.d. 1785. 144 pp. Cart. d. (Strong signs of wear). Cf. Tchemerzine II, 22-a. Cordier 133 - Early edition of "Figaro's Wedding", "whose performance had to be enforced in a struggle of several years against the royal censorship and... finally achieved an almost unprecedented, scandalous success in the history of the famous Parisian stage..." (KLL). - Waterstained, strong signs of wear, st.a.T.

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