Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists Who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time To which is Added A Chronological List of All the Operas That Have Been Performed in Europe (Two Volumes)
by Clayton, Ellen Creathorne
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 833pp; Two volumes, original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, minor staining to boards, wear to spine ends & corners of boards, spine of volume one partially torn, original brown endpapers, frontispiece tissue guards intact & age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Two-volume compendium of the memoirs of female singers up to the mid-19th century. Illustrated with six portraits.
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- Book Happy Booksellers (US)
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- Title
- Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists Who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time To which is Added A Chronological List of All the Operas That Have Been Performed in Europe (Two Volumes)
- Author
- Clayton, Ellen Creathorne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1863
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- music opera biography memoirs autobiography singers singing voice vocalists
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- Music;
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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