443 - Collection with 4 dramas from the early 19th century. Mostly Vienna, 1802-15. Marble. Contemporary paper binding with paper spine label 'Theater 144' (bumped, somewhat rubbed).

Collection with 4 dramas from the early 19th century. Mostly Vienna, 1802-15. Marble. Contemporary paper binding with paper spine label 'Theater 144' (bumped, somewhat rubbed). 1. Collin, HJv Maeon. A tragedy in five acts. 1811. - First published 1809. 2. Handel, (JF). Messiah, an oratorio. Set to music by Mozart. 1815. - Libretto print; the score adapted by Mozart was first printed in 1803. 3. Treitschke, GF Medea. A tragic opera in three acts, freely adapted from the French. (1802). - German-language libretto for Cherubini's opera 'Médée'. 4. Bittermann (pseud.). Vanity, Thy Name Is Poet, or the Travestied Misanthropy and Regret, a Farce for Digestion... 1806. - With colored engraved frontispiece. - Hayn/Gotendorf III, 612 and IX, 64; Weller, Druckorte I, 205; Goedeke V, 275, 16. - First edition. - 'Obscure and obscene farce that possibly surpasses Kotzebue's 'Dr. Barth with the Iron Brow' in vulgarity' (Hayn/G.). - Slightly foxed in places. - Coat of arms bookplate of Theodor Karajan and 2 further bookplates 'Haesener' on the pastedown and endpaper.