The Prima Donna. Her history and surroundings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

by H. Sutherland Edwards

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First edition

London: Remington and Co. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1888. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. 4 , 320; 4 , 302; largely unopened; hinges starting, small tear in the fore-edge of the front free endpaper in volume I; all else very good and sound in original taupe cloth stamped in gilt and black. An account of the origin of the prima donna, operatic conventions, the prima donna as a type, and anecdotal biographies of famous divas, including Sophie

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