Wagner, Richard

FIRST EDITION, [4] & 299 pages, 4to (32.5 x 24.5cm), lithographed title, engraved cast-list and music, plate number 20326, verso of title blank, two blank pages before Act 3, nineteenth-century cloth-backed boards, sewing guards reinforced, manuscript label to cover, long inscription by Dr Paul Höhn on blank page 1, with his ownership inscription on title, stamp of the Bavarian State Opera, many annotations in pencil, including to chords and stage directions ("Wotan plotzlich beleuchtet...Wotan's Beleuchtung weg"), a few markings in blue & violet crayon, tear to last leaf repaired (laid down), staining to corners throughout

WWV 86C XII; Fuld. p.465

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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The first issue of Siegfried comprised four hundred copies, both engraved (as here) and lithographed.  Dr Paul Höhn reports in his long inscription that this copy once belonged to Engelbert Humperdinck (attributing the pencil markings to his hand), and explains its later provenance.  Höhn (1896-1970) was a celebrated early aviator.