79/2070 Gluck, C.W. and Tschudi, L.T. de. Écho et Narcisse, Opéra en trois actes, représenté pour la première fois, part l'Académie-Royale de Musique, Le Mardi 21 Septembre 1779. (Paris), printed by P. de Lormel for l'Academie, 1779, 1st ed., (2),VIII,(1),8-46p., bound in richly gilt armorial burgundy morocco, pink silk doublures, a.e.g., 4to.

- Final free endpaper and pastedown w. sm. wormhole in inner margin. Otherwise fine.

= Olivier 2549 identifies the coat of arms on the binding as that of M.-J.-L-B. Comtesse de Savoie. The opera Echo et Narcisse was one of the less succesfull operas by Glück. At its première in Paris, the response was so lacklustre that Glück never went back to Paris. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.