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| ALGAROTTI (FRANCESCO): An Essay on the Opera Written in Italian by Count Algarotti. London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers..., 1767. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. vi [vii Contents, viii blank], 192; lacks half-title. BOUND WITH: CAMPBELL (Thomas): An Essay on English Poetry. Boston: Published by Wells and Lilly, 1819. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 231 [232 blank, 233 - 234 adverts], engraved portrait of Campbell as frontispiece. 2 volumes in 1, bound in 19th century half calf, marbled boards, rebacked with old spine gilt in compartments (but worn and rubbed) laid down, newspaper clippings on end-papers and motto pasted above imprint on Campbell's book. A rather strange combination of two disparate works. Algarotti (1712 - 1764) wrote the most significant treatise on opera published in Europe in the 18th century. It was published in 1755 in Italy, Saggio sopra l'opera in musica. New Grove says of it that it was the "best-grounded and most wide-ranging of [18th century] critiques, also the one that received the widest diffusion through reprinting and translation. It proposed that all parts of music, including singing, be subordinated to a unifying poetic idea...." GBP 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 610 US$ 913.55 | JP¥ 80709] Book number: 4368 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books. | ||
| [BONNOT DE MABLY [GABRIEL)]: Lettres a Madame la Marquise de P.... sur l'Opera. A Paris, Chez Didot..., 1741. Small 8vo, pp. xix [xx Approbation, xxi - xxiv Privilege], 166, including half-title. BOUND WITH: Lettre de Madame de *** a Monsieur de ***. Avec la Réponse de M. de *** sur le Goût, & sur l'utilité done peuvent être les Régles. A Parix, Cez Prault..., 1737. 8vo, pp. [ii], 56 [57 - 58 Approbation and Privilege]. 2 volumes in 1, recent wrappers; severe marginal worming to upper margin of first item not affecting text, last twelve leaves of second item soiled and frayed at upper margin. GBP 330.00 [Appr.: EURO 366 US$ 548.13 | JP¥ 48425] Book number: 4087 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books. | ||
| LUMLEY (BENJAMIN): Reminiscences of the Opera. London: Hurst and Blackett..., 1864. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo (220 x 146 mms.), pp. xx, 448, including half-title, engraved portrait of Lumley as frontispiece, attractively bound in half vellum, spine ornately gilt, red morocco labels, marbled sides, top edge gilt. A very good and attractive copy, with the bookplate of Alvin W. Krech, the American financier, on the front paste-down end-paper. Lumley (1811 - 1875) trained as a solicitor but found himself working as assistant to Pierre-François Laporte, manager of Her Majesty's Theatre, of which Lumley became manager in 1842. These memoirs have the effect of suggesting that Lumley was not quite as attentive in paying his singers as he should have been. GBP 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 244 US$ 365.42 | JP¥ 32283] Book number: 5394 Click here to order or inquire at John Price Antiquarian Books. |
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