Theatre Lyonnais de Guignol. Nouvelle Edition Revue, Corrigee et Annotee par l'Auteur. Illustree de dessins et culs-de-lampes, par Enas D'Orlt.
Lyon. Librairie Mera-Mme Vve Monavon. 1890. 1890. Hardcover. 4to. 26cm, xvi,530,(1)pp., text illustrations, in contemporary half crimson cloth backed marbled boards with the original illustrated wraps bound, gilt leather label,binding slight dust worn else a very good to fine copy (kds). - A classic French collection of twenty marionette plays. The "guignol", a French marionette originating in Lyons, was believed to be invented by Laurent Mourquet (1744-1844), a puppet-master, who combined local French humour with the puppet character, Punch. He authored the principal plots of the marionette theatre that developed into the famed Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris and The English Grand Guignol. This edition combines the two volumes first published in 1865 and 1870 and contains the introduction of 1865. Near Fine. Item #25633
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