CHARPENTIER (Louis) Causes of the decadence of taste in the theatre, where one deals with the rights, the talents, & the faults of the authors; the duties of the actors, what society owes them, & their fatal usurpations to the dramatic arts. Amsterdam, and is in Lyon, Pierre Cellier, Paris, Dufour, 1768, 2 parts in one volume in-12, title, 233-150 pp., with a frontispiece, marbled fawn calf, smooth cloisonné spine with fleurné, title piece, simple gilt fillet on the cuts, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Good copy