Mémoires de Hector Berlioz... comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre 1803-1865 Avec un beau portrait de l'Auteur. - FROM THE COLLECTION OF JESSYE NORMAN

Paris: Michael Lévy Frères. 1870. Second Edition (first published edition). Large octavo. Half brown calf with marbled boards, five raised bands on spine. 1f. (half-title), 1f. (original half-length photographic portrait of Berlioz by Franck), 1f. (title), 1f. (quotation from Macbeth), 509, [i] (blank) pp. + 2ff. (additional textual quotation from Macbeth, errata). Spine somewhat rubbed, bumped, and scuffed. Some staining and minor foxing through first 30 pages, else fine. Second Edition (first trade edition). Scarce. Holoman A6. Hopkinson 87.  This copy from the collection of the magnificent soprano Jessye Norman.

Berlioz had 1,200 copies of the Mémoires printed in 1865 and kept in his office at the Conservatoire. He gave several copies away during his lifetime; the remainder (the present copy being one), however, were not released for publication until 1870. The original frontispiece photograph of Berlioz includes a facsimile of a musical quotation from the Symphonie Fantastique. (15199)

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