Author: CLAYTON, ELLEN CREATHORNE
Title: Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists Who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time; In Two Volumes
Description: London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1863. hardcover. Ex-Library, 1st Edition. Two volumes set. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Original half morocco with marbled paper over boards. Boards are marked and rubbed. Wear to spine ends, edges and leading corners of boards. Paperpeeling to edges of boards. Leading edges of boards are bumped. Nicks on early pages of volume I. One plate of volume I is loose. One plate of volume II is partially detached. Hinges are visible on title pages. Contents are clear. Foxing of endpapers, prelims, plates and pages, heavy in some places. Illustrated with 6 engraved portraits of following female singers: Elizabeth Billington, Giuditta Pasta, Maria Felicita Malibran, Giulia Grisi, Clara Novello, and Pauline Garcia. Plates all present. Portraits of Elizabeth Billington detached, but intact. The set includes the Chronological List of All the Operas That Have Been Performed in Europe. T. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket.

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