Les parodies du nouveau theatre italien, ou, recueil des parodies représentées sur le Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne, par les comediens italiens ordinaires du roy : avec les airs gravés
A collection of French parody plays performed at the Hôtel de Bourgogne by the Italian comedians of the king, printed in Paris in 1738 by Briasson with engraved airs, and drawn from the Getty Research Institute's holdings. The pictures are ornamental printers' headpieces and tailpieces: symmetrical scrolls, urns, birds, putti with animals, and repeated fleur-de-lis borders, useful for period decorative rules, cartouches, and classical border repeats.






