By Gustav Kobbe
London   G. P. Putnam's Sons
9" by 6" [6], v-xx, 955pp
A prize bound edition of Gustav Kobbe's important work on opera, illustrated throughout with many beautiful plates.
By Gustav Kobbe

1933 The Complete Opera Book the Stories of the Operas, Together With 410 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation

London   G. P. Putnam's Sons
9" by 6" [6], v-xx, 955pp
A prize bound edition of Gustav Kobbe's important work on opera, illustrated throughout with many beautiful plates.
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Illustrated, Leather Binding

Gustav Kobbe's influential guide to operas, a collection of stories about the life behind the opera curtains.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, and sixty-two plates.

Collated, complete.

Written by Gustav Kobbe, who died before the publication of this work, for which he is best known.

Prize label to Eileen Horman to the from pastedown, awarded from Nantwich & Acton Grammar School.

Condition

In a half calf prize binding from Nantwich & Acton Grammar School. Externally, smart. A little rubbing to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. A couple of marks to the boards. Front hinge is starting but firm. Prize label to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

Very Good Indeed

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