(JANUS PRESS) Dido and Aeneas An Opera Performd at Mr Josias

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(JANUS PRESS.) Dido and Aeneas: An Opera Perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding-School at Chelsey By Young Gentlewomen. The Words by Mr. Nahum Tate The Musick Composed by Mr. Henry Purcell. Multi-colored paper construction with mounted cutouts by Linda Wray, with compact disc recording laid in. Tall thin folio, color paper wrappers; cloth clamshell box. Newark, Vt., 1989

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one of 150 copies, this inscribed to andrew hedden by claire van vliet and printed in conjunction with the Theodore Press in Bangor, Maine. It was published on the 300th anniversary of the only previous printing of Tate's libretto, an 8-page pamphlet distributed to the audience of the first performance, which celebrated the coming of William and Mary to the English throne in April 1689.