Beschreibung:

Offenbach, Jacques THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE OPÉRA-BOUFFE L'ÎLE DE TULIPATAN the working manuscript of the full score of the complete operetta in one act, written in dark brown ink on up to twenty-four staves per page, with deletions, revisions, alterations and corrections, sometimes extensive, in ink, blue and orange crayon and in pencil, with dialogue-cues written at the head of each number, the sections numbered in blue crayon, including an early version of the final printed number indicated in the score, the repeated sections frequently notated schematically with letters and numbers, otherwise substantially complete 115 pages, oblong folio (c.27 x 34.7cm), 24-stave "Lard-Esnault" paper, the gatherings numbered, with a few autograph title-pages and blanks, the bifolia numbered by the composer, modern half calf, a few stains