BINDING - Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868, composer) & [Jacopo FERRETTI (1784-1852, librettist)]. La Cenerentola. [i.e. Cinderella.]

BINDING - Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868, composer) and [Jacopo FERRETTI (1784-1852, librettist)]. La Cenerentola ossia la Bonta' in Trionfo. Melodramma Giocoso. Da Reppresentarsi nel Teatro Grande di Brescia il Carnovale del 1818 al 1819. Brescia: Spinelli e Valotti Tip., 1818. Large 12mo (180 x 108mm). Title within woodcut typographic border, 59-pages (some very light spotting). Contemporary [?or original] blue silk over pasteboards, the covers decorated in thread and sequins forming a foliate border around a monogram on the upper cover [?"S.M."] and a flower spray on the lower cover (3 or 4 sequins lacking, some light wear to spine). Provenance: old inscription at foot of p. 51. The book includes the cast list, 'credits' and libretto for performances of Rossini's "Cinderella" in Brescia. Curiously, the librettist's name is not included. The blue silk and sequins of the binding probably reference the dress that Cinderella wore to the ball. The opera was first performed in Rome in 1817.