Accession number
PML 145747.1
Published
Berlin : Bei Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich, 1822.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
For variations see: Lipperheide: Kat. der Kostümbibl., 2d ed., Sbb25
Dedication signed by the editors, Karl Graf Brühl and S.H. Spiker.
An account of a pageant based on Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh, with scenery and direction by K.F. Schinkel, costumes by Brühl, music by G.L.P. Spontini and lyrics by Spiker.
Does not include music.
Illustrated with hand-colored aquatints of the costume designs, comprising 22 full-page plates byJ.H. Stürmer and one panoramic view of the procession (2 sheets joined to form a strip 27 x 80 cm. and folded to form 4 leaves) engraved by Laurens and Jügel after A. von Kloeber's vase designed for the Berliner Königliche Porzellan-Manufactur.
Text includes a description of the accompanying plates.
"Gedruckt bei Trowitzsch & Sohn in Berlin"--Colophon.
Unnumbered volume included as a supplemental companion volume to v. 5 in a set of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry. The volumes comprising the set were originally numbered 1-15, with v. 5 accompanied by this volume, and the set additionally accompanied by a privately printed index to the volumes evidently compiled by Corry (see PML 145743-56). Volume 3, however, containing Moore's "A comic opera" and "Irish melodies", along with volumes 14-15, comprising the "Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald", are missing from the library's collection, having evidently been lacking from the set when the books came into the possession of former owner Gordon N. Ray. Cf. Ray checklist.
Dedication signed by the editors, Karl Graf Brühl and S.H. Spiker.
An account of a pageant based on Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh, with scenery and direction by K.F. Schinkel, costumes by Brühl, music by G.L.P. Spontini and lyrics by Spiker.
Does not include music.
Illustrated with hand-colored aquatints of the costume designs, comprising 22 full-page plates byJ.H. Stürmer and one panoramic view of the procession (2 sheets joined to form a strip 27 x 80 cm. and folded to form 4 leaves) engraved by Laurens and Jügel after A. von Kloeber's vase designed for the Berliner Königliche Porzellan-Manufactur.
Text includes a description of the accompanying plates.
"Gedruckt bei Trowitzsch & Sohn in Berlin"--Colophon.
Unnumbered volume included as a supplemental companion volume to v. 5 in a set of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry. The volumes comprising the set were originally numbered 1-15, with v. 5 accompanied by this volume, and the set additionally accompanied by a privately printed index to the volumes evidently compiled by Corry (see PML 145743-56). Volume 3, however, containing Moore's "A comic opera" and "Irish melodies", along with volumes 14-15, comprising the "Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald", are missing from the library's collection, having evidently been lacking from the set when the books came into the possession of former owner Gordon N. Ray. Cf. Ray checklist.
Description
[6], 27 p., 22, [1] leaves of plates (1 folded) : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signature of Maria Corry of t.p.
Provenance
Bookplate of James Corry; signature of Maria Corry; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Purple morocco tooled in gilt and blind by George Mullen of Dublin, ca. 1830; bound as a companion volume to v. 5 of a set of uniformly bound first and early editions of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry (see PML 145743-56).
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