[Music]. THOMAS (Ambroise). La Tempête, ballet fantastique i - Lot 189

[Music]. THOMAS (Ambroise). La Tempête, ballet fantastique in 3 acts and 6 tableaux (after Shakespeare). Libretto by Jules Barbier. Choreography by J. Hansen. Piano score reduced from the orchestra by M. Edouard Mangin. Paris, Au Ménestrel, Henri Heugel, s.d. [1889]. In-4°, masthead, color title enhanced in gold, [3] ff. 177 pp. 1 f. blank. Blue jansenist morocco, spine with 5 false-nerves, gilt title, boards bisautés, silver numeral H C [or 2 Cs together surmounted by a third?] affixed to the upper left corner of the upper board, gilt roulette on the edges, chasses richly decorated with wide lace, gilt roulettes and fillets, blue tabis, all edges gilt (Ch. Maillet, Paris). Envoi de l'auteur " A Madame Carnot, respectueux hommage. Ambroise Thomas. July, 1889." Sadi CARNOT was then President of the Republic. In 1894, he raised Ambroise Thomas to the dignity of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on stage at the Opéra Comique during the 1,000th performance of Mignon. Luxurious first edition. La Tempête premiered at the Paris Opéra in June 1889. Enriched with a lithograph mounted on tab. A very fine copy, despite some rubbing to the binding and an unstained spine.