To Joseph Haydn; | on the Occasion of the Performance of “The Creation’ in the University Auditorium, Vienna, 27 March 1808 | Translated by A.P. Dierick.
Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1982. Squarish Duodecimo, 16 x 15.5 cm. Cased in stiff card, covered in Ludo grey Strathmore Grandee paper, with printed paper title label to the upper cover, and khaki endpapers. Unpaginated [16 pp.]. Some toning to the covers, especially along the spine and edges, else a fine copy. Set in Jessen-Schrift, Trajanus, and Wilhem Klingspor Schrift types, and printed on the same paper as that used for the covers. The original German text is set parallel to the English translation, with the former occupying the versos and the latter the rectos; both texts are bordered by arrangements of dingbat ornamentation, printed in yellow and green to the page heads and feet. One of 75 unnumbered copies. Item #110
“Produced in joyful celebration” of the 250th anniversary of Haydn’s birth.
Price: $100.00