Mandinian, Edward The Fairy Queen
The Fairy Queen by Edward Mandinian A Photographic Record
As presented at the Royal Opera House with essays by E J Dent, Constant Lambert and Michael Ayrton
Hardcover with dust jacket John Lehmann 1948
96pp clean pages with no writing or inscriptions endpapers clean 53 photographic plates.
Green boards with dust jacket designed by Michael Ayrton. Fading to edges especially top of spine bumping as well.
DK has some tears and small loss in places see pictures non price clipped.
A souvenir volume for the production of Purcell's 'The Fairy Queen' staged in 1946. The production was a triumphant return to the stage of the Royal Opera House and the Sadler's Wells Ballet after the muted productions of the second world war. Michael Ayrton designed the scenery and costumes, inspired by Inigo Jones. Frederick Ashton oversaw the choreography and Constant Lambert arranged the Purcell score and libretto.
