Talisman. Libretto. Italian & English

original English libretto by Arthur Matthison ; Italian translation by signor Zaffira ; music by M.W. Balfe. (statement of responsibility)
U.S. RISM Libretto Project.
Cover title; printed price: 40 cents--middle of front cover; legal notice dated 1874--bottom of front cover; advertisements--verso of front cover, p. ii, p. [1] at end, recto and verso of back cover; "The plot"--by Arthur Mathison--p. iii-iv.
Libretto in Italian and English in parallel columns.
Libretto includes melodies for the principal arias.
"J.W. Taylor, music typographer, 15 Vandewater St., N.Y."--p. 4.
Dramatis personæ: RICHARD CŒUR DE LION. Mr. Wm. Carlton, baritone -- SIR KENNETH. Mr. Jos. Maas, tenor di grazia -- EMIR SHEERKOHF. Mr. Wm. Hamilton, basso -- NECTABANUS. Mr. Harry Peakes, basso profundo -- BARON DE VAUX. Mr. Nichols, tenor -- DUKE OF AUSTRIA. Mr. Marston, basso -- KING OF FRANCE. Mr. Cayla, basso -- BERENGARIA. Miss Beaumont, mezzo soprano -- EDITH PLANTAGENET. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, soprano--p. iv.