Lot 52 , [Whistler, Rex] - Royal Opera House - State Performance. By Command of His Majesty The King in Honour of the Visit of the President of the French Republic and Madame Lebrun.

° [Whistler, Rex] - Royal Opera House - State Performance. By Command of His Majesty The King in Honour of the Visit of the President of the French Republic and Madame Lebrun. Wednesday, March 22 at nine-thirty, 1939. (Programme). pictorial title (printed in red and black) and 7 other pages (with red decoration); original cream pictorial and decorated shaped wrappers (by Rex Whistler), with gold tasselled enrichment, 4to. The upper wrapper with central dark lithographed armorials within trophied surrounds and having borders of elaborate embossed decoration; the lower with a 'sunburst' motif engraving - relevant both to the Opera House, but especially to Louis XIVth of France (the Sun King) and founder of Europe's first ballet school. Royal Opera House, 1939. *The Vic-Wells Ballet and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (under Constant Lambert and Sir Thomas Beecham) performed Tchaikovsky's 'The Sleeping Princess' and Debussy's 'Iberia'
£100-140

Condition:
Just a few sm. brown spots on upper wrapper and 2 on lower, else v.good. The tasselled enrichment replicates that on the sunburst