Il Maestro di Cappella. Parole di Sofia Gay. Canto e Pianoforte Nuovissimi riduzione ... Scene Italiane ... Edizione Economiche Ricordi ... Scene dell'Opera Comica. Piano-vocal score

Milano: G. Ricordi & C. [PNs 99800o, 99800e, 99800q], 1896. Large octavo. Full red cloth with manscript titling in white ink to spine. 1f. (recto cast list, verso contents), 1f. (recto title, verso portrait of composer), 101, [i] (blank) pp.

Some browning and foxing; price stamp to center of title obscuring text; minor tears to several outer edges. Paer "was one of the central figures in the development of opera semiseria during the first decade of the 19th century." Julian Budden and Scott L. Balthazar in Grove Music Online.