[Music & Dance of the French Court] Lully, Jean Baptiste. (1632–1687) [Quinault, Philippe. (1635–1688)] Cadmus et Hermione. Tragedie, representée par l’Academie Royale de Musique. LIBRETTOLibretto: 68 pp., octavo, typeset, with woodblock head and tailpieces and capitals. Modern vellum covered boards, generally lightly browned throughout. Loewenberg 52. Not in Sonneck. First performed April 1673 in Paris, in the presence of Louis XIV, to a text by Philippe Quinault after Ovid, it was with 'Cadmus et Hermione', that Lully invented the form of the tragdie en musique (also known as tragdie lyrique). This edition appears to have been