Gaetano Donizetti

Theater - Donizetti, Gaetano - Anna Bolena Melotragedia in two acts to be performed in the Ducale Teatro di Parma Parma, Stamperia Carmignani, 1833. 8°. Exemplar on BLUE PAPER, spectacular romantic brown long-grain morocco binding with gold decoration to the plates where an apologetic leather insert with an embossed image of a knight within an architectural structure stands out in the center. Ex libris pasted to the counterplate with the initials: P.F.L. Together in the lot three other plays: Amaionne Dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel Regio Teatro di Torino, Turin, Onorato Derossi, 1784, coeval blond calf binding with gold decorations to the plates; Mennone e Zemira Dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel Real Teatro di S. Carlo, Naples, Tipografia Flautina, 1817; Marco Visconti, Benevento, Tipografia Paternò e Soci, 1856.