JAMES BUEL,The Great Operas: The Romantic Legends Upon which the Masters of Song have Founded their Famous Lyrical Compositions. Introduction by Giuseppe Verdi, each volume with facsimile autograph,tinted chromolithographic illustrations by William de Leftwitch Dodge, including tipped-in plates on silk. Paris: Societe Universelle Lyrique, 1899. 5 vols., folios, full black morocco with gilt decoration. "This copy manufactured expressly for Harry Edwin Woods". Estimate $300-400
