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Beyle, Marie Henri

Vie de Rossini, par M. de Stendhal. 1–2.

Paris, chez Auguste Boulland et C:ie, 1824. 8vo. viii + 306; + iv + 305–624 pp. + 2 portraits (Rossini & Mozart). Bound in two volumes, contemporary half calf, spine with label, two edges uncut. First edition, first issue. This is scarcely a biography but rather a chain of episodic anecdotes about Rossini tied around lengthy synopses of the operas and abundantly adorned with digressions on the nature of Italian society, etc. Cordier 64. Carteret, 2, pp. 347–50.

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