Lot 741
Music - Fauré, Gabriel
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£300
Description
Shylock: comédie en 3 actes de Edmond Haraucout (d'après Shakspeare)[sic] Op 57. Paris: Hamelle, [1891]. First edition, piano-vocal score, 4to, original pictorial paper wrappers, preserved in a linen folder
Footnote
Note: With a signed inscription on the titlepage from Fauré to Gustave Samazeuilh, who made the piano reduction for this edition. A note from Richard MacNutt to Bruce Ritchie describes the work as "near-unique" and there is no copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale.