3266: 2 vols. Mozart W(olfgang) A(madeus). Le Nozze Start Price USD 7,500.00 Current Price USD 7,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 2 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 Location Philadelphia, PA See more about '3266: 2 vols. Mozart W(olfgang) A(madeus). Le Nozze' Description Current Lot 2 vols. Mozart W(olfgang) A(madeus). Le Nozze 2 vols. Mozart, W(olfgang) A(madeus). Le Nozze di Figaro. Paris: Magasin de Musique, no date [ca. 1806-1809]. Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. First edition, first issue, full score. Plate no. 566. Folio, contemp. 1/2 calf & marbled bds.; rubbed, worn & blistered, binding starting to break. Some spotting & minor dust soiling to title page. Light to moderate internal foxing & spotting, very occasional minor soiling, occasional discoloration to gutters. 1-186 pp.; 1-116, (1) 2-127 pp. Text in Italian & French. The title page gives the publisher's address as 76 Rue de Richelieu, the publisher's number as 366, the price as 48f. The foot of the title page bears the ink stamp "Cherubini Mehul" and the firm's ink star stamp. James J. Fuld identifies the above as the probable first edition of the orchestral score of the entire opera. He notes that the 6th edition of Kochel, p. 545, lists the Paris, Imbault printing of ca. 1795 as the first edition; but Fuld has not been able to locate any copy of that edition & does not believe that it was actually published. The copy above meets all of Fuld's first edition points. The Cherubini Mehul ink stamps likely indicate an earlier issue than the Jaques Josfa Fey issue listed by Haberkamp. "Figaro is generally agreed to be the most perfect and least problematic of Mozart's great operas" (Grove, Opera, 3: 634). Fuld, pp. 352-53; Kochel 492; K6, p. 545; Haberkamp, I: 261 Place a Bid!