Gaetano Donizetti Theater - Naples, San Carlo - Donizetti, Gaetano - Il Castello di Kenilworth Melo-Dramma da rappresentarsi nel Real Teatro di S. Carlo Naples, Tipografia Flautina, 1829. In 8°, 175 x 105 mm. Intaglio frieze to frontispiece, splendid long grain red morocco binding with the Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (reigning house Bourbon-Two Sicilies) stamped in gold on the plates. Together in the lot 4 other plays all staged at the San Carlo in Naples, in their elegant bindings in the arms of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies on green morocco: Fausta [Donizetti], Naples, 1832; Stefano Duca di Napoli [Giovanni Briol], Naples, 1843; La Notte di un Proscritto ossia l'ospitalità scozzese [Salvatore Taglioni], Naples, 1838; Gonzalvo e Zilia [Count of Gallenberg], Naples, 1837.

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