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Wagner's cost-cutting lithograph facsimile

In 1845 Wagner had to finance the first publication of Tannhäuser himself.  One cost-cutting measure was to have it lithographed, as he could prepare the score in his own hand ready for transfer to the lithographic stones.  Here's the opening of Act I in that edition:


SOURCE:   https://musicprintinghistory.org/lithography/