Large thick brown cloth HB with no Dj,corners slightly bumped and top of spine slightly torn,cover unmarked,gold gilt lettering and decoration on cover,bind good,pages browned and slightly spotted,no rips or marks to pages,great BW plates,one stamp on front frep only mark to book, stories of the operas with 410 of the Leading Airs and motives in musical notations,including musical scores,informative book on opera