"Resignation"  Wiener Zeitschrift fur Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode, 1818. Vienna. 1st and 2nd quarters, 2 volumes in one. 8vo. Contemporary cloth backed marbled boards, Morocco spine label. Light edge wear. With 2 folding plates of engraved music, including "Resignation", its first edition, and 28 additional plates including hand-colored fashion plates, architectural subjects, carriages, etc., (1 carriage plate defective). WoO149.  A gorgeous copy. Kinsky 619-20

AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF COLLEY CIBBER, comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an historical view of the stage during his own time . The third edition. To which is now added, a Short Account of the rise and progress of the English stage: also a Dialogue on old plays, and old players. London: printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall., 1750. Third edition. 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 555; with fine engraved portrait frontispiece by Vandergucht after Vanloo; a very good copy in contemporary calf, spine with black and gold label (edges slightly chipped). Third edition of Cibber’s autobiography - the first of its kind from the London stage, and a classic of theatrical history. The Apology was first published in 1740, with a second edition following in the same year. Both these editions were published for Cibber himself, but in March 1750 he sold the copyright to Dodsley for £52.10s: Dodsley then added two more pieces, the Short Account taken from his own edition of Old Plays (10 vols, 1744), and the Dialogue from Wright’s Historia Histrionica.

Beautés de L'Opera ou Chefs-D'Oeuvre Lyriques, Paris, 1845. Original quarter leather, quarto. Cover worn, pages loose. Illustrated with ten magnfiicent engravings of opera singers and dancers including Pasta, Giulia Grisi, Carlotta Grisi, Taglioni, Sontag, etc. One of the most sought after books of the Romantic period, especially in the rare original Paris printing.

The "Bab" Ballads. Much Sound and Little Sense. by W.S. Gilbert. London, John Camden Hotten, 1869. First edition, illustrated throughout by the author. 8vo, 220pp, plus advertisements. In original publisher's green cloth, decorated & lettered in gilt. Both inner hinges cracked, and beveled edges of boards rubbed. An attractive copy of these charming, satirical, humorous, pre-Sullivan verses.

[Ravenscroft & Gawthorn, Nathaniel] Harmonia Perfecta: A Compleat Collection of Psalm Tunes in four parts...taken from the most eminent masters, chiefly from Mr. Ravenscroft. To which is added A Dialogue upon death. With several Psalm Tunes, Hymns and Anthems, never before Publish'd...Printed by William Pearson and sold by...Nathaniel Gawthorn...1730, 272pp, 8vo. First edition, later issue; the title page reset with "Harmonia" correctly spelled and "and" before "Nathaniel" in the imprint. Contemporary paneled calf, at some later time rebacked and recornered. 18th century marbled end-leaves. All three issues of this work are rare: Harmonie is recorded in ESTC in three copies (BL, Congretional Library and the Huntington) --  OCLC adds NLS and possibly Glasgow (issue not stated) and COPAC adds King's College London.

Gründliche Violinschule, Frankfurt und Leipzig. 1791. 268pp. 8vo. Original boards, chipped, pages browned. 4th edition, in German, printed in the year that Leopold's famous son died, of one of the first major violin treatises.

Per Giuditta Pasta, Versi Ed Epigrafi, Como, 2 Agosto, 1829. 20pp booklet in Italian with poems and epigrams dedicated to Giuditta Pasta. Superb.

Josephs Legende  Fürstner, Berlin. 1914. 67pp. First edition booklet in original binding, the scenario by Kessler and von Hofmannsthal, in German, for Strauss' ambitious Ballets Russes ballet, it includes a photographic illustration of the original set design. Originally written for Nijinsky for Diaghilev's thrid season in Paris, it was first performed by Leonid Massine after Nijinsky had been, famously, fired for eloping with another dancer. Minor stains, cover slightly loose, but otherwise in fine condition.

The Union Temperance Song Book. Sixth Edition. Boston. Elias Howe, Boston. 1847. 80pp.  A very fine copy of a popular 19th century genre, by the successful early music publisher, Elias Howe. Original blue paper covers, chipped at corners, contents in excellent condition. Scarce.

Otello ephemera collection. Two Gazzetta Musicale di Milano supplements issued by Ricordi in 1887 -  No. 8, 79 pp, and No. 13, 199pp, in Italian; a small 16pp study in French printed by Librarie Fisbacher in 1887, "Otello de Verdi"; and a mocking comic pastiche with many amusing cartoons, "Otello Guglielmo Della Bella Venezia Detto Lodovico IL Moro. Ricordati Di Me..." 30pp. Four rare ephemera publications! Some wear and tears, but the paper covers and contents are entirely intact. Overall condition is quite good.