Eight Songs and Four Duets.

Rossini (Gioachino)

Eight Songs and Four Duets.

Description: FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title printed in red, music score for vocal line with piano accompaniment, 4 systems per page, faint library stamp at lower margin of title page, damp stain at lower margin through initial leaves, damp spots, particularly through final 10 leaves, pp. [vi], 87, [i, advertisement], folio, cloth-backed boards with title-page engraving printed on both boards, gilt edges, rear board and final gathering detached, backstrip torn with loss at head and foot, boards slight soiled and spotted, sound

Publication Details: Willis & Co., [1835]

Notes: Undated, but advertised in the Literary Gazette of 1835, 'Eight Songs and Four Duets, the last Compositions of Sig. Rossini... To be published on the 4th April.' (vol. 19). This collection of pieces is also known as Les soirées musicales.