4 November, 1866. Issue 035. Large folio with colored front illustration, 4pp. 33 x 48 cm. Usual folds, reinforced along spine, else fine.
The illustration shows the composer riding a large violin, wearing a rose garland and conducting a swirling cloud of characters from his operas. Andre Gill, regularly persecuted by censorship, was probably the greatest caricaturist of his time in Paris.
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