BEAUTES DE L'OPERA (Les), ou chefs-d'oeuvre... - Lot 17 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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BEAUTES DE L'OPERA (Les), ou chefs-d'oeuvre... - Lot 17 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
BEAUTES DE L'OPERA (Les), ou chefs-d'oeuvre lyriques, illustrés par les premiers artistes de paris et de Londres sous la direction de Giraldon, avec un texte explicatif rédigé par Théophile Gautier, Jules Janin et Philarète Chasles. Paris, Soulié, 1845. Large in-8, contemporary binding in brown half-chagrin with corners, percaline boards decorated with gilt filleting, spine with nerves decorated with sets of filleting, edges in colour. First edition. Ten steel-engraved portraits of actresses and numerous woodcuts in the text; framed pages historiated in black, presenting animated scenes with characters, animals, grotesques, or ornaments in colour. Nine chapters, each devoted to a work: Les Huguenots, Giselle, The Barber of Seville, The Limping Devil, La Norma, La Sylphide, Don Juan, Ondine, La Juive. One of the most imaginative and seductive books of the Romantic era.
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