Beschreibung:

circa 22,8 x 16,8 cm., 754 pp.. Contemporary half-calf with gilded spine Self-contained volume with the large selection of popular songs from Sicily with a long introduction and 5557 (+511) songs devided into 69 chapters. - The poet, scholar and politician Lionardo Vigo Calanna (1799-1879) published in 1865 his Ruggiero as volume 1 of his works, the present collection as volumes 2 of the opera is complete and independent. A first edition had been published in 1857, this second edition is enlarged and has a new dedication to Ludwig II. King of Bavaria as well as a new preface and postscript.

Bemerkung:

- Some browning due to the quality of the paper, little foxing, slightly rubbed, else well preserved.