S. di Giacomo - Cronaca del teatro San Carlino - 1891

Salvatore Di Giacomo, Chronicle of the San Carlino Theater, Contribution to the history of the Neapolitan dialect stage 1738;1884, Naples, S. Di Giacomo Editore, for the types of F. Bideri, 1891, first monumental edition published in only 300 numbered copies, imposing large folio volume bound in contemporary half-leather with corners, spine with raised bands richly stamped and decorated with gilt titles, boards in marbled paper, heraldic ex libris Foulques on the flyleaf and an exceptional letter entirely autograph and signed by Salvatore Di Giacomo dated April 30, 1889 addressed to the same Mr. Foulques affixed at the opening, extraordinary work enriched by numerous plates and illustrations out of text depicting portraits and historical events of the famous Neapolitan theater, interior well preserved with slight and physiological marginal foxing, specimen of the highest bibliographic and collecting value, unique of its kind thanks to the presence of the author’s autograph manuscript. Tirata edition in only 800 copies, copy no. 273 destined for the BIBLIOTECA DI E. W. FOULQUES with his ex libris on the flyleaf; In 4°, pp. 296 n.