Donald Francis Tovey - The Bride of Dionysus - First Edition

TOVEY, Donald Francis (1875-1940).

The Bride of Dionysus. An Opera in Three Acts. The Poem by Robert C. Trevelyan, Music by Donald Francis Tovey. Analysis by D. F. T.

Edinburgh: Townsend & Thomson, 1929.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.41; [3]. Publisher's paper wraps printed in black to upper, stapled.

Internally clean, a few corners turned over, edges toned and spotted. Wraps split down the spine and detached, some marking to covers.Uncommon with only six institutionally held copies in the UK. Very good.

Tovey's analysis of his operatic treatment of Robert C. Trevelyan's poem.