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Budden, Julian.
The Operas of Verdi 1 from Oberto to Rigoletto [with] The Operas of Verdi 2 from Il Trovatore to La Forza del destino [and] The Operas of Verdi 3 from Don Carlos to Falstaff [A complete set of Budden’s study of the operas of Verdi].
Publisher: Cassell, London;
Date of Publication: 1973
Stock Code: 14988
All first editions. Octavo, three volumes, pp., ix, [1], 524; ix, [1], 532; x, 546. Sections of musical scores within text. All in the publisher’s original burgundy, green, and black cloth, titled in gilt to spines, in the publisher’s original dust-jackets. Jacket to vol. 1 price-clipped, tape repair to spine-panel, small closed tear to upper panel. Spots of damp to cloth of vol. 2, bindings strong and square. Contents clean and free of annotations or inscriptions. A very good to near-fine set in like jackets.
An exhaustive study of Verdi’s complete operas, which provides musicological, bibliographical, dramatic, and historical context to the composer’s work.
Heavyweight, so an additional postage contribution may be requested for shipping to overseas addresses. £65.00