Edwin and Angelina; or The Banditti. An Opera, in Three Acts

by Elihu Hubbard Smith

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First edition

First edition. 72pp. 8vo. Publisher's paper-backed boards, spine perished, covers detached. Evans 32843; ESTC W31811; Sabin 82503. Sonneck, Early Opera in America, p. 100. Item #373391 First edition of the libretto to America's first comic opera. Smith was a member of the Hartford Wits as well as a practicing physician at New York Hospital. This theatrical work, his only play, is an adaptation of the

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