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1919réf. 432211919. First Edition. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY. Poster ""Gilbert and Sullivan's ""The Yeoman of the Guard"" by Dudley Hardy"". WITH: Billboard ""Opera Company's 1919/1920 Season by Dudley Hardy and John Hassall"". London: David Allen & Sons 1919. Single sheet measuring 20 by 30 inches; nine unassembled dovetailing sheets measuring 7-1/2 by 10 feet assembled. $900.Original poster depicting the headsman with axe from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeoman of the Guard accompanied by a large billboard in parts announcing the seasons productions with three poster designs: The Yeoman The Gondoliers and The Mikado.The poster advertises Gilbert and Sullivan's ""Yeoman of the Guard"" widely recognized as Sullivan's most accomplished musical score. A classic Savoy Opera the piece israther unusuallyset during the 16th century at the Tower of London bringing in quasi-Shakespearean dialogue and a darker atmosphere. The accompanying billboardmeasuring over 70 square feetpromotes the 1919 season's productions including ""Yeoman"" the musical theater favorite ""The Mikado"" and Gilbert and Sullivan's last major success ""The Gondoliers."" Hardy and Hassall were among the premier graphic artists of their time having built reputations both as book illustrators and specialists in poster design. Hardy was influenced by French chalk drawings and poster art while Hassall attributes his style to Japanese prints. ""Yeoman"" poster fine. Chipping and creasing to separate panels of original billboard. A wonderful pair. unknown
1697réf. 23479Oxford: Etheatro Sheldoniano 1697. leather_bound. Contemporary cambridge style binding in full brown calf. Very good. Folio6 A4-Ppp4 Qqq-Pppp Qqqq2-Zzzz2 Aaaaa-Mmmmm. The first English edition of the Greek text edited by Richard West & Robert Welsted. Engraved portrait of Pindar by M. Burghers facing the title page. DIBDIN II 289. "a beautiful and celebrated edition. on the whole we must allow that the editors of this magnificent work have taken infinite pains to bring together every thing which could illustrate and improve the reading of the poet". The editors compared the Mss held by the Bodleian with that of the Biblioteca Palatina. Engraved portrait of Pindar and large title page vignette by M. Burghers. Pindar c. 522 – c. 443 BC was an Ancient Greek lyric poet of the classical period from Thebes and the first Greek poet to reflect on the nature of poetry and on the poet's role. Errata. BRUNET IV p.659. Armorial bookplate. Raised bands spines richly gilt small front cover nick scrape lower front cover corner binding tight with leaves at end of text of Pindari Opera Omnia leaves Oooo-Mmmm toned. Etheatro Sheldoniano unknown
1923réf. 370639New York 1923. Mounted photograph of the Opera House. Calligraphic presentation leaf extracts from programs inlaid in large folio leaves 120 2 index ff. 1 vols. Folio. Full deep red morocco gilt spine with five raised bands boards with triple fillet borders navy blue doublures silk flyleaves t.e.g. Faintest traces of rubbing. Fine. Mounted photograph of the Opera House. Calligraphic presentation leaf extracts from programs inlaid in large folio leaves 120 2 index ff. 1 vols. Folio. Elaborate and attractive album of extracts from the printed programs of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York a record of opera productions from 1915 to 1922 listing the principal performances and also retaining the lists of box holders which functions as a who's-who of New York society. There are several newspaper clippings including an account of the farewell performance of Mrs. Geraldine Farrar in Tosca. Presented to Henry Fletcher by his wife Ethel née Thompson on the tenth anniversary of their wedding. Henry Fletcher 1877-1953 of Greenwich Connecticut was a member of the Grolier Club until his death and a major benefactor of the Yale libraries. unknown
1924réf. 51696New York NY; Hollywood CA; Taos NM: Underwood & Underwood Anderson Lumiere Guard Vitaphone Studios Metropolitan Music Bureau 1924-1927. Twenty seven items. With 24 photographs 3 sized 3.5 x 5.5 in.; 6 sized 5 x 7.75 in.; 1 w/ colour-tinted blue sized 7.25 x 9.5 in.; 16 sized 8 x 10 in.; many w/ annotations dating the photos in pencil some of the press photos and studio photos stamped on versos with attached newsreel information blurbs many w/ text in negative at lower corner of image; 1 very large colour lithograph poster printed on linen showing the young opera star seated and colours of pink gold and black sized 40 x 80 in. w/ wood bars at upper & lower for hanging some minor creasing from rolling but in Fine condition; and TLS from Lawrence H. Smith at Underwood & Underwood Inc. News Picture Division to Miss Marion Talley. These photographs and giant lobby poster provide splendid artifacts for the lavish attention paid to a young star at the beginning of her career during the Jazz Age. The very large poster is a beautiful example of colour lithography showing her demurely seated against a pink lozenge background with advertisements at the foot of the poster for Steinway Piano and Victor Records. Marion Talley 1906-1983 was the daughter of a telegraph operator for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and by 15 she was appearing in the Kansas City Grand Opera Company of Mignon by Abroise Thomas and quickly became a local celebrity often performing benefit concerts. She studied with music teacher Frank LaForge famed soprano composer who maintained a close relationship with the Metropolitan Opera and was placed under contract in 1925 by Giulio Gatti-Casazza at age 19 becoming the youngest principal female performer in the Met’s history to that point. Her debut performance was Feb. 17 1926 as Gilda the daughter of the title character in Verdi’s Rigoletto. The press photos show her surrounded by the many flowers she received in the 18 encores her performance on stage meeting the opera diva Ernestine Schumann-Heinck d. 1936 as well as her appearance on radio with Marguerite D’Alvarez and Giovanni Martinelli singing Home! Sweet Home!. In addition she also starred in the first Vitaphone short sound films released in 1926 with Don Juan starring John Barrymore and another Vitaphone short performing “Bella figlia dell’amore” from Rigoletto but the critics were savage criticizing her performances and her lack of appeal on camera. During this period she traveled extensively to Europe and through the southwest as evidenced by the series of photos showing her in Taos with the burros young Native American children and adults in regalia as well as her automobile. The photo of the young star by Samuel Lumiere 1878-1971 is a very nice example of his portrait work during the height of the 1920s when he was under contract to shoot celebrities for the Chicago Tribune. See: Barrios A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film pp. 20-29; Vitaphone Marks 80th Anniversary Vitaphone News The Vitaphone Project Vol. 8 No. 1 2006; Crafton The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound 1926-1931 1999. Underwood & Underwood, Anderson, Lumiere, Guard, Vitaphone Studios, Metropolitan Music Bureau, unknown
1837réf. List3613Philadelphia: Firth Meignen & Co. Publishers & Importers of Music and Musical Instruments No. 41 Chestnut Street 1837. Seven pages complete including dance figures. Folio sheet music. Very good with scattered foxing and light edge wear. A rare early American operatic dance arrangement by Francis Johnson 1792-1844 widely regarded as the first published Black composer in the United States. Issued circa 1837 this work adapts themes from Vincenzo Bellini's opera La Sonnambula 1831 into a set of quadrilles with concluding waltz arranged for piano forte and structured for social dancing. The internal headings "Pantalon" "Ladies Chain" etc. retain the formal quadrille sequence reflecting the popularity of European ballroom forms in Philadelphia during the period. Johnson a Philadelphia bandleader composer and virtuoso keyed bugle player published approximately seventy compositions over nearly three decades. Active in Philadelphia from at least the 1810s he became one of the city's most sought-after musicians leading ensembles for cotillions public balls military functions and civic celebrations. In 1818 became the first African-American composer known to have sheet music published in the United States. His band performed for elite social events and public commemorations including celebrations for the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to Philadelphia. In 1838 he toured Europe with his ensemble performing in England and reportedly receiving a silver trumpet from Queen Victoria. This piece was composed a year earlier per the Johnson page at Musicalgeography.com six years after Bellini's work. Operatic paraphrases and dance adaptations of fashionable European works were central to Johnson's output. Overall a quite scarce early title from an important composer. We find two copies in OCLC 692295106 at AAS and the William Clements Library. See "Francis Johnson's Compositions - With Sheet Music" https://musicalgeography.org/francis-johnsons-compositions/. Firth, Meignen & Co., Publishers & Importers of Music and Musical Instruments, No. 41 Chestnut Street
1960réf. 88091CULTURAL REVOLUTION MODEL OPERA Manuscript Ledger Master Inventory: General Record of Stage Props for a traveling Chinese theatrical repertory company introducing Revolutionary Opera into its program including costs for creating silk stage props sets costumes and scenery with various paper slip receipts some loose dated from 1963 to 1969. Oblong album measuring 7-3/4 x 10-5/8 inches contents with 20 numbered leaves of double-sided ruled ledger; bound in brown cloth-backed plain light blue paper board with lettered pink paper label decorative pattern endpapers originally with ribbon-tied spine now lost contents loose. Includes entries for the revolutionary opera Taking Tiger Mountain 1968 with one entry bearing signature of Wang Xiu Wen dated 12 September 1967. Includes a pink silk armband laid into the album inscribed "Mei Ying Shan" which could be translated as Huaying Mountain. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cjE0LDNycE8 There is also reference to a 1961 novel which the Bejing Film Studio made into a movie called Lie Huo Zhong Yong Sheng Living Forever in Burning Flame its IMDB title translated as Red Crag based partly on fact by Chinese authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan former inmates in a Kuomintang prison in Sichuan. It was set in Chongqing during the Chinese Civil War 1949 and featured underground communist agents under the command of Zhou Enlai fighting an espionage battle against the Kuomintang. The story takes place in Huaying Mountain. hardcover
1999réf. 14955JAbsecon: MagicImage 1999. First Edition First Printing. Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed by Mary Philbin co-star with Lon Chaney Sr. in the classic film written to the book’s author Philip J. Riley. Dated September 11 1989 Philbin writes: “Dear Mr Riley: I am sorry about the delay in returning the book and papers. I would appreciate eleven complimentary copies of The Phantom of the Opera book or if you cannot then as many as possible. Thank you Mary Philbin”. Accompanied by the original hand-addressed envelope from Philbin’s home in Los Angeles. Philbin died before the book was published so this is as close as one can come to a signed copy. Large 317 page paperbound book. Profusely illustrated. Near fine copy enclosed in a handsome morocco leather and cloth clamshell box. MagicImage hardcover
1939réf. ABE-1538494660313Royal Opera House Covent Garden 1939 EXTREMELY RARE! REX WHISTLER designed this glorious programme for the State Performance in Honour of The President of the French Republic and Madame Lebrun at the Royal Opera House March 22 1939. WHISTLER's cover design is an elaborate affair; the embossed card covers are ingeniously cut away in curves. It is fabulously decorated by Rex Whistler on the front and back. A gold cord with tassels forms the binding round the twelve folded pages. Dancers included Margot Fonteyn Robert Helpmann William Chappell Frank Staff and Frederick Ashton. Sir Thomas Beecham conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This is a great collectable example of ephemera in its own right but it is of especial value for admirers of Rex Whistler. Soft cover. Fine. Royal Opera House Covent Garden paperback
1949réf. 293881949. Good overall. An impressive collection of post W.W.II German opera stars dancers & directors and the stunning sets from the Hamburg Opera Ensemble. The 1st page is a dedication of farewell to Edward Groth US Consul General dated 24th May 1949. Groth had a long career in the Foreign Service including Consul in Afghanistan and India. Photographs of vocalists dancers directors - many signed - include: Günther Rennert staging director Arthur Grüber Günter Hertel Martina Wulf Theo Herrmann Ilse Koegel Helene Werth Lore Hoffman Hedy Gura Sigmund Roth Peter Markworth Hermann Mendt Nikola Eva Poser Rudolf Zerber Adolph Meyer-Bremen Johannes Drath Elfriede Wasserthal Richard Holm Irma Handler Cornelia Händel Elisabeth de Freitas and Danelies Rothenberger Otti Tenzel Bico von Larsky and several others signed and unsigned but unidentified. = signed. There are 20 programs for operas performed between April 1946 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail to April 1949 Raskolnikoff. Opera programs include: Tosca La Traviata Peter Grimes Othello Carmen Barber of Seville La Boheme Rigoletto and many others. Many of the performers were known through Europe. The portfolio starts with photo portraits which someone has annotated with sticky notes then includes many 1 sheet programs laid down and superb photographs of elegant sets for the varying operas. Fabric covered card covers cream cloth no title 38pp stiff card each page with 1 2 3 or 4 b&w photos later pages with programs from various operas dating 1946-1949. 38 portraits many silvertone 53 set photographs 20 programs for a total of 111 pieces. Photos varying in size 24 4 1/2 x 3.1/2" 42 6 329387/8 x 4 ¼" 20 5 ½ x 3 3/8" 4 9 3/8 x 7 1/8" and 20 programs all laid down on heavy card stock. Covers marked and dusty internally clean. Considering the Opera House was almost completely destroyed during the war this is a remarkable record of the Hamburg Opera and their artists. unknown
1955réf. ABE-1607221994675Stockholm 1955 1955 First edition. Octavo 24.617.1cm 20pp. Illustrated. Text in the DANISH language. SIGNED by ALL the directors leading performers players and staff members of the company including Chu-Tu-nan Ma Shao-po Jen Hung Yun Yen-ming Chang Yu-shan Chiang Hsin-yung Hsu Yu-chuan Chang Chien-ming Wu Chin Wang Ching-chieh Hsia Hu-chen Shen Chin-chi Jen Tzu-heng Wang Chuan-kuei Mei Pao-yue Yeh Sheng-chang etc. Also included a signed letter from Wang Hsi the Secretary to Carl Werner Skogholm dated Nov. 20 1955. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Stockholm, 1955 paperback
réf. 9791280717443Maria Callas 100 Vissi d'Amore The art of Maria Callas the soprano that changed the history of the Opera before and after. The main protagonists and historians from the Opera sphere narrate Callas's vocal abilities and her performing charisma none other than the 'Divina'. With her repertoire and her heroines she was able to create a definitive myth of a unique way of interpreting the roles. Exclusive images published for the first time from the Ragni-Cuoco collection and from the personal Archives of the Authors that narrate the most significant moments regarding the career of the Artist and the Woman herself. Limited edition hand numbered 777 exemplars SCRIPTA MANEANT hardcover
réf. 30832Executed in ink pencil gouache and silver paint on wove paper. Unsigned but with monogrammatic handstamp to lower left corner. With annotations in ink in Russian relative to various parts of the costume. 13.125" x 8.75" 332 x 222 mm. Slightly worn and soiled; some edge tears and repairs; upper right corner with erasure resulting in minor paper loss. Korovine designed costumes for productions of Russian operas including Borodin's Prince Igor Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko and Le Coq d'Or. "Konstantine Korovine is one of the most famous of Russia's twentieth-century stage designers . He made his debut as a theatrical painter in 1885 when he executed the sets and costumes for the production of Snegurochka at Savva Mamontov's Private Opera after Vasnetsov's designs and thereafter he emerged rapidly as an independent stage designer - decorating according to one souce 80 operas 37 ballets and 17 dramas during his lifetime. Korovine brought to the Russian stage a vibrancy and richness that was lacking in the traditional Imperial theaters . He felt more at ease when called upon to design operas and ballets treating of Russian history and legend such as Prince Igor Sadko and The Golden Cockerel and he designed sets and costumes for such spectacles at home and abroad." Bowlt: Russian Stage Design Scenic Innovation 1900-1930 from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky pp. 175-176. Provenance: MacDougall Arts Ltd. London auction June 9 2011 lot 413 catalogue p. 17. unknown
1929réf. AG20057SELECTIONS FROM REPERTOIRE OF OPERATIC SONGS AND TERPSICHOREAN MELODIES OF MEI LAN-FANG - by Professor Liu T'ien. Hua 梅兰芳歌曲谱 Published in 1929 specially edited and printed for Mei Lan-Fang's performance in the United States. Mei Lan-Fang was invited by America in the winter of 1929 to help the people better understand Chinese Opera the master of Chinese songs Liu Tianhua produced two volumes of books one in Chinese 126pp. and the other in English 118pp. which includes 18 Kunqu Opera with music script and score. Signed and stamped by the Author on the English version 1050 copies printed and only 50 copies were signed this is No. 43 on Chinese art paper 4to matching red silk sewn thread binding with printed gold paper labels very fine condition. 本套书å°åˆ·äºŽ1929年，共分为2册，精装，此书为梅兰芳赴美演出特制，共1050部，其中的50部为æˆåŒ–宣纸å°åˆ¶ï¼Œåˆ—有编å·ï¼Œç¬¬ä¸€å·ä»·æ ¼äº”百美元，二至五åå·ä¸€ç™¾ç¾Žå…ƒï¼Œæ¤å¥—为50部中的第43å·ï¼Œæœ‰åˆ˜å¤©åŽäº²å°å¹¶è‹±æ–‡ç¾å。两套书分别为ä¸è‹±æ–‡ç‰ˆï¼Œå…±æ”¶å½•äº†18æ¡æ˜†æ›²çš„å”±è¯ã€å”±è…”工尺谱和五线谱，历ç»æ•°æœˆå®Œæˆ å“相如新，ä¿å˜å¦‚æ¤å®Œå¥½çš„éžå¸¸å°‘è§ã€‚ paperback
réf. AQ25079vs.: vs. c. 1820s-1930s 12mo 8vo and quarto. The majority preserved within original publisher's wrappers. An extensive archive of theatrical publications and ephemera emanating from the recently dispersed library of Howth Castle County Dublin seat of the Gaisford-St. Lawrence family comprised of theatre programmes and libretti representing productions spanning from the late 1820s up to the 1930s both domestic and Continental in origin. The 94 individual publications comprehend: Eight playscripts and libretti printed in Paris between including an 1828 edition of Théaulon and Choquart's comic vaudeville Monsieur Jovial ou l'huissier-chansonnier 1827 and an 1882 issue of Charles Gounod's five-act opera Faust set to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite. 15 Italian productions variously printed at Rome Milan Florence and Naples in the latter half of the nineteenth century including an 1848 Neapolitan edition of Verdi's four-act opera Nabucodonosor composed to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera first performed at La Scala in Milan 9th March 1842; and a programme to accompany the first performance of Verdi's Attila at La Fenice in Venice 17th March 1846. An Italian language edition printed at Barcelona in 1845 of Jacopo Ferretti's libretto Eran due or son tre 1834. 70 theatre programmes operas and Italian-language libretti printed in London spanning the century between the 1830s and 1930s including: 15 issued in the 1870s as a part of 'Davidson's Musical Opera-Books' series published in conjunction with performances at 'London's Italian Opera Houses' of productions of inter alia Rossini's The Barber of Seville Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute each with a parallel English translation and 'the music of the principal airs'. The first appearance in print of the libretti for five Gilbert and Sullivan productions: Patience 1881 Princess Ida 1884 The Mikado 1885 The Yeomen of the Guard 1888 and Utopia 1893. A magazine-programme for a run of performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1926 of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up 1904 - a production with which Barrie was directly involved - with Dorothy Dickson in the lead role. A run of 12 programmes for the 1925/26 1926/27 seasons at the The Old Vic including 11 productions of Shakespeare's plays all notably featuring leading Shakespearean actor Baliol Holloway d. 1967. Notable members of the Gaisford-St. Lawrence family included Thomas Gaisford 1789-1855 English classical scholar sometime curator of the Bodliean Library Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and Dean of Christ Church. Gaisford’s eldest son Thomas Gaisford of Offington Sussex 1816-1898 British Army officer married in 1859 as his second of three wives Lady Emily St Lawrence d. 1868 eldest daughter of the third Earl of Howth. Their eldest surviving son Royal Navy officer Julian Charles Gaisford-St Lawrence 1862-1932 succeeded in 1909 his uncle the fourth and last Earl of Howth and came to reside at Howth Castle in Co. Dublin. A rare opportunity to acquire an ephemeral archive which not only exemplifies the theatrical passions of a single family across least three generations but documents the evolution of nineteenth century stage production charts the popular progress of Italian-language libretti in both Britain and on the Continent and exhibits the situation of English theatre prior to the post-war dominance of television and film. . [vs.], [c. 1820s-1930s] unknown
1491réf. 915Terviso or Venice: Michael Manzolus 1491. First Edition with the commentary of Acron and Pomponius Porphyrio. Bound in modern marbled gilt calf. A very large and clean copy with marginal indexing on a few signatures in red others in brown ink. A very Large copy of a very very rare edition of Horace https://data.cerl.org/istc/ih00451000 GW 13457; Goff H451; BMC V 315 IB. 21815; Bod-inc H-203; CIBN H-275. Located copies:The Walters Art Museum Bancroft Library Yale Free Library of Philadelphia Princeton Univ. Brown University Pauline Fore Moffitt Library University of California General Library. The unique charm of Horace's lyric poetry arises from his combination of the metre and style of the distant past—the world of the Archaic Greek lyric poets—with descriptions of his personal experience and the important moments of Roman life. He creates an intermediate space between the real world and the world of his imagination populated with fauns nymphs and other divinities. He denounces corrupt morals praises the integrity of the people of Italy and shows a ruler who carries on his shoulders the burden of power. Other Augustan themes that appear in Horace's lyric verse include the idea of the universal character and eternity of Roman political dominion and the affirmation of the continuity of the republican tradition with the Augustan principate. At some stage Augustus offered Horace the post of his private secretary but the poet declined on the plea of ill health. Not withstanding Augustus did not resent his refusal and indeed their relationship became closer. "Horace's success as a poet can be measured partly by how difficult he is to imitate and translate and by how many admirers have sought to do both. Readers in the Middle Ages looked to Horace as a moralist and as a literary critic and appreciated the Satires and Epistles more than the more difficult Odes. The enthusiasm of the Italian Renaissance poets Petrarch 14th century Landinio and Politian late 15th century for the Odes encouraged the popularity of Horace's lyric. Horace was one of Montaigne's 16th century favorite poets. The themes and poetics of both the lyrics and the satires greatly influenced Ben Jonson late 16th early 17th century Robert Herrick Andrew Marvell Milton and Dryden 17th century. The Odescontinued to be springboards for much of both public and private 17th-century English lyrics. Pope was the leading Horatian poet writing in English during the 18th century the Age of Augustanism especially imitating Horace's hexameter poetry while Alfred Lord Tennyson Matthew Arnold Byron and Rudyard Kipling were among Horace's enthusiasts in the 19th century. Horace continued to inspire modern poets among them Ezra Pound. While the different genres of his work have specific qualities they all share in being Horatian a quality that many have tried to define. In Nietzsche's view Horace's peerless artistry separates him from all other poets. Compared to Horace's Odes "All the rest of poetry becomes in contrast something too popular—a mere garrulity of feelings" "What I owe to the ancients" Twilight of the Idols 1 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/horace . Folio 30 x 20cm Signatures: A8B10C8D4E8F-G6a–q8r6. 184 leaves First Edition of Horace with both of his ancient commentators Acron and Porphyrio. Bound in modern marbled gilt calf. A very large and clean copy with marginal indexing on a few signatures in red others in brown ink. The history of the printing of editions of Horace and his commentators. First printed in Venice about 1471-2 then in Milan about 1475 14761477 Venice again 1478 &1479. The next edition was Leipzig 1492 All of these editions are without commentary. Acron's commentary was Published with out the Opera in Milan in 1479. At Florence in 1482 there is an edition of the Opera with the Landinus commentary then again in Venice 1483-86. The Edition offered here is the FIRST to have the commentary of Helenius Acron and Pomponius Porphyrion who are both said to have flourished in the third century these commentaries are revised by Raphael Rgius ƒl. 1480-1500 and Ludovicus de Strazarolis which make up the first 50 pages of this book. Michael Manzolus
