2nd edition, enlarged. Undated but circa 1930. 620pp, with colour plate frontispiece and numerous further monochrome plate illustrations. In deep blue cloth-covered boards, decorated with blind rules, and gilt lettering front and spine. Top edge gilt. 8vo. Cloth a little rubbed and worn at spine ends and corners. A couple of small, faint pencil annotations on front endpapers and the occasional mild sign of fingering and reading else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Â
A lovely vintage copy of the second, enlarged, edition of this once popular work on opera, its stories and production history.
