@article{boarding-school:2620, note = {A deluxe edition of the libretto, which is based on Virgil's Aeneid. Consists of printing and art work on one side of a folded strip and on leaves attached to the strip, in a box containing a pocket holding a compact disc recording of the opera and an empty 2nd pocket to accommodate any other compact disc. "The book can be stood in a line or in a star-circle shape." "300th anniversary publication, April 1989. The first edition of Nahum Tate's libretto ... was probably distributed to the audience at the 1st performance ... in April 1689." "The text was prepared, typographically designed & handset ... by Michael Alpert at the Theodore Press in Bangor, Maine. Printed at the Janus Press in Newark, Vermont by Michael Alpert & Claire Van Vliet ... The book structure and box were designed by Claire Van Vliet." "This co-publication of the Janus Press & the Theodore Press is limited to 150 copies." The compact disc is published: [England] : Chandos, p1981.}, author = {Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695}, url = {http://digitalcoll.skidmore.edu/record/2620}, title = {Dido and Aeneas : an opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's boarding-school at Chelsey by young gentlewomen / the words by Mr. Nahum Tate ; the musick composed by Mr. Henry Purcell.. Dido and Aeneas. Libretto}, recid = {2620}, pages = {38 unnumbered pages ; 38 x 17 cm.}, address = {1989}, }