CORVINUS PRESS: WAGNER, Richard.

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The Flying Dutchman. First edition, limited issue, out of series from an issue of 130 copies only. This is the first publication of this translation of Wagner's libretto for his opera Die fliegende Holländer (1843). It was likely translated by the owner of the Corvinus Press, Viscount Carlow, who was a German speaker. The English text is printed on the rectos and the German on versos, providing a precisely parallel translation."The flying Dutchman was one of the 'flagships' of the Press. The print-run was fairly large, which, coupled with the larger format and ambitious typography, places this book among the half dozen items which Carlow intended for a wider public... the limp vellum binding is among the most successful of all the bindings made for the ordinary copies of Carlow's books" (Nash & Flavell, p. 92).

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