Rigoletto : melodramma di F.M. Piave / musica del maestro G. Verdi ; riduzioni per canto con accomp. di pfte. di Luigi Truzzi.

"Al più caro de' suoi amici, l'egregio avvocato Antonio Vasselli, in pengo di gratissimo cuore questa edizione consacra Giovanni Ricordi."
First complete ed.; engraved.
Collation: t.p.: p. [1]; "Indice": p. [3]; "Personaggi" and "Attori": p. [4]; music: p. 5-231.
Pages 26 and 27 are also numbered 29 and 30, and p. 29 and 30 are also numbered 26 and 27; p. 131 is also numbered 134, and p. 134 is also numbered 131; p. 189 and 191 are numbered 189/191.
Each of the 20 numbers has its own caption title, price, separate (alternative) pagination, pl. no., and, except for nos. 1, 3, 6, 13, 17, and 20, corner date (they range from 14.8.51 to 25.5.52).
Resembles Hopkinson 53 A (a), except that 53 A (a) has a latest corner date of 4.4.52.