Lucia di Lammermoor
Subtitle: Lucie of Lammermoor : a serious opera, in three acts
By: the music by Donizetti ; performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket
Edition: Authorized edition.
Publisher: G. Stuart
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ita
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Lucie of Lammermoor
Work titles: Lucia di Lammermoor
Notes: Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano after Sir Walter Scott, The bride of Lammermoor; first performed in Naples at the Teatro di San Carlo, 26 September 1835. Cf. Grove music online.

Includes title vignette featuring coat of arms of United Kingdom.

"Argument": p. [iii]-iv.

"Dramatis personæ": p. [5]; includes performers, listing C. Duprez in the role of Lucy; Duprez first sang Lucy at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1851. Cf. Kutsch/Riemens, 4. Aufl.

Includes stage directions.

Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera, col. 771

Italian words with English translation on facing pages.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward; previously in the collection of Clement Crisp.

Former owner's ms. signature at head of title: JHB Hayes.

Imperfect: First 24 p. only.

No. 12 in a collection of 14 plays and opera and ballet librettos published in London between 1831-1864.

Text block split, spine detached; trimmed to 17 cm.

Bound with ten other libretti in contemporary cloth with titles written on fore-edge.

Bound in contemporary blue buckram with gilt-stamped spine label: Operas; in case.