Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.

first edition as a complete opera, [4],145 pages, oblong 4to, engraved throughout, memorial vignette to Mozart on title by J.G. Pflugfelder, dedication leaf and publisher's epistle, early nineteenth-century half morocco ("Johanna Zimmermann"), occasionally trimmed within plate at top edge, a few small tears (including to title) and repairs, [Hirsch iv 186; RISM M 4780]

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Simrock's vocal score may have been the earliest to be published as a single edition, rather than as a series of separate numbers. Pflugfelder's title vignette shows Muses mourning Mozart.