Il trovatore : dramma in quattro parti di Salvadore Cammarano / posto in musica dal maestro Giuseppe Verdi ; riduzione per canto e piano di L. Truzzi.

"Al suo venerato ed ottimo amico, l'egregio avvocato Antonio Vasselli, Tito di Gio. Ricordi."
First complete Milanese ed. of the vocal score; engraved.
Collation: t.p.: p. [1]; "Indice": p. [3]; "Personaggi" and "Attori": p. [4]; music: p. 5-252; publisher's advertisement: p. [4] of cover.
Pages 179 and 180 are also numbered 182 and 183, and p. 182 and 183 are also numbered 179 and 180; p. 200 and 201 are also numbered 203 and 204, and p. 203 and 204 are also numbered 200 and 201.
Vignette by Ratti of a scene from the opera: t.p.
Each of the 23 numbers has its own caption title, price, separate (alternative) pagination, and pl. no.; 8 of them have corner dates, these ranging from "4.2.52" to "9.6.53".
Resembles Hopkinson 54 A (e), except that the librettist's first name is spelled "Salvadore" (not "Salvatore"), and that the line below the vignette reads, in part, "tutte le riduzioni, traduzioni e composizioni" (not "tutte le riduzioni e compositioni").