La Belle Epicière Opérette En Trois Actes de Pierre Decourcelle et Kéroul. [Piano-vocal score]

  • Paris: Choudens [PN A. C. 10091], 1895
By VARNEY, Louis 1844-1908
Paris: Choudens [PN A. C. 10091], 1895. Large octavo. Quarter mid-tan leather with marbled boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents, verso blank), 188 pp.

Named cast includes Huguenet, Lamy, Barral, Bellucci, Schey, Barré, simon-Girard, Rosine Maurel, Dziri, and Ryter, with M. Baggers, conductor, and Belval, general manager.

Binding slightly worn; spine lacking and reinforced with brown tape; hinges split; endpapers browned and brittle, with manuscript notation in blue crayon to front pastedown and handstamp "0072" to front free endpaper. Browned, especially at edges; some minor soiling; publisher's handstamp to title. First Edition, later issue.

First performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 16 November 1895.

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