Set and costume designs.- A collection of six original set designs for Guiseppe Verdi's 'Aida', watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with gold and silver, over graphite on buff wove paper, various pen and brown ink inscriptions, and ink stamps of G. Ricordi & Co., each sheet approx. 240 x 340 mm. (9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in), four with stage plans verso, handling creases, minor surface dirt, all unframed, [late 19th, early 20th century]; together with 33 costume and 11 prop designs for Guiseppe Verdi's 'Aida', lithographs heightened with watercolour on thick wove paper, each sheet approx. 325 x 220 mm. (12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in), with ink stamp of G. Ricordi & Co., some minor surface dirt and spotting, [late 19th century, early 20th century]; and with seven photographs of a 1945 production of 'Aida', each stamped with G. Ricordi & Co. verso, (Qty.).

⁂ A comprehensive collection of designs for a production of Aida.