THE MAGIC FLUTE. An Opera In Two Acts. Music by W. A. Mozart. English Version After The Libretto Of Schikaneder and Giesecke.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth lettered and ruled in gilt with titles in gilt over red to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine, bright copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the bright, clean dustwrapper, a little rubbed to spine tips, with three short closed tears to edges (the longest c. 1 cm). An excellent example.

Auden and Kallman's translation of Emanuel Schikaneder's original German libretto for Mozart's final opera was commissioned for a new television production of the work mounted to celebrate the bicentenary of the composer's birth. (Bloomfield and Mendelson A37b).