Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt (2 vols.)
Hardcover
1897 · New York
by Hueffner, Francis, trans
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Good (Ex-library, with usual library markings, bookplate on front inside cover, pocket at back inside cover, perforation stamp used on illus., missing frontispiece of v.1, pages have tanned. both volumes have very deep splits to textblocks. hinges spilt, joints holding. boards scuffed & scratched). Maroon cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt top edge, stamped script on top covers, 2 vols., 352, 368 pp. "New edition revised, and furnished with an index, by W. Ashton Ellis." Vol. 1: 1841-1853. Vol. 2: 1854-1861. Tandem letters between Richard Wagner (1813-1883) and Franz Liszt (1811-1886). The correspondence of two musical titans over 20 years. Liszt's daughter, Cosima, was married to Wagner from 1870 to 1883. (Inventory #: 135401)