The Mad Day Or The Marriage Of Figaro, Original Edition Ruault, 1785. Vol. 8, Morocco

"La Folle Jounée ou le Mariage de Figaro, comedy in five acts, in prose. Performed for the first time by the Comédiens Français ordinaire du Roi, on Tuesday April 27, 1784. A magnificent volume in 8, full red morocco, ribbed spine, gilt titles, marbled guards and rich interior lace At the Palais Royal, at Ruault, 1785, 2ff-LVI-237 pp. ? Copy with the suite of 5 ht engravings by Claude Nicolas Malapeau after Jacques de Saint-Quentin with Roseline's throat discovered on pl. V (cf. Tchemerzine I.p492). Beautiful copy with all margins on strong laid paper. First edition conforming to the description in Tchemerzine (1 p.491), Copy from the very first printing with the error "trosieme" in the running title on page 109 , and finished printing it on February 28, 1785. "The performance of April 27, 1784 was one of the most memorable in the entire history of French theater: endless queues from the morning, in which the duchesses rubbed shoulders with the laquais, to obtain tickets; full house, women suffocated in the crowd; nothing was missing, the entire Court and the entire city were there. The success was triumphant and the takings one of the highest ever known in the theater. The real reason for this success is that The Marriage of Figaro marks the beginning of modern theater (Laffont-Bompiani II In French in text no. 178: "The Marriage of Figaro was one of the triumphs of the Century. With his Masterpiece, Beaumarchais invented a new dramaturgy...."