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Bibliographical Society, London, first edition,1968. Cloth, 4to,. xx, 351 pp. 1,564 entries. Includes numerous descriptive annotations. Spine slightly bumped and creased, otherwise near Very Good.

Richard Macnutt Ltd, Tunbridge Wells, second edition, 1980. Imitation leather, gilt cover-titles, large 8vo,. xix, 230 pp. Corrected and expanded from the first edition of 1951. From the publisher's advertisement: "The contents of the first edition were as follows: Introduction: definition of the author’s aims and line of approach. Musical compositions: full bibliographical descriptions and dates of the first and early editions and detailed listings of arrangements of Berlioz’s works. Literary works: full bibliographical descriptions of libretti and of books by Berlioz. Correspondence.- detailed listings of books and periodicals containing letters of Berlioz. Appendices: Berlioz’s compositions, with and without opus numbers. His librettists. Dedicatees of his works; His autograph manuscripts and their locations. Histories of his French publishers and dated lists of their plate-numbers. Principal biographical and critical books about Berlioz. Illustrations: Frontispiece… Read More

Bibliographical Society, London, reissue with corrections, 1968. Cloth, 4to,. xx, 351 pp. 1,564 entries. Includes numerous descriptive annotations. Rear board scuffed and scratched, otherwise near Very Good.

G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, first edition, 1977. Cloth, folio, 36 cm,. xvii, 587 pp, the catalogue reproducing 21 catalogue cards per page,. A catalogue reproducing the library catalogue cards From the introduction - "The Newberry Library has what is considered to be one of the most important music collections in the United States, particularly rich in the fields of Renaissance music, early theory, and Americana. As a privately endowed research library with strong bibliophilic interests, it has naturally built its collections to serve historical scholarship. Indicative of this strength is the fact that nearly 10 per cent of its cataloged music collection predates 1861. The post-1860 materials in the Library make up a valuable working reference collection, besides containing a number of valuable and important items; but it is clearly the early material which makes the Library an outstanding one for the music scholar. Thus the present volume - the first extensive published catalog devoted to… Read More

American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, first edition, 1954. Cloth, 8vo,. xiii, 145 pp. 3,437 entries. The bibliography covers books and articles to about 1950. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author, and coded into 32 categories. There is a subject index, basd on these categories, and a further index to articles from individual periodicals. There is an Appendix of Jazz magazines many already defunct by the time the bibliography appeared). From the introduction: "The literature of jazz is as varied and exciting as the music itself, for not only has a group of competent critics grown up around the idiom but it has been, since the 20's, traditionally fair game for any writer with paper and an outlet for his self-expression. A critical look at this literature reveals much that is shoddy, poorly written and poorly conceived, and yet much that brings an understanding not only of the music but of the cultural milieu in which it has functioned for so many years. The cycles of change in… Read More

Bibliographical Society, London, reissue with corrections, 1968. Cloth, 4to,. xx, 351 pp. 1,564 entries. Includes numerous descriptive annotations. Booklabel on front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Fine.

Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1951. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. 438 pp. Approximately 9,000 entries. From the preface: "The Hirsch Library was acquired by the British Museum in 1946.. While many of the rarest and most important musical compositions were included in Vols. Ii, iii and iv of the catalogues issued by Mr. Hirsch himself, it is not generally known that these amounted to barely one-third of the total amount of music in his library. The remainder included over 300 additional vocal scores, of which 150 were of Mozart operas; about 2,000 miscellaneous works of the late 18th and of the 19th and 20th centuries, including orchestral scores, chamber music, reprints and facsimiles ; and smaller, but notable, collections of the first and early editions of Marschner, Loewe, Berlioz, Liszt, Johann Strauss (father and son), Lanner, Brahms and Sterndale Bennett. There was also a large number of 19th-century French, German and English popular songs with pictorial title-pages.… Read More

D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, first edition, 1989. Cloth, gilt cover device, folio,. ix, 26, 67, xii, 45 pp. The subjects covered in this volume represent three of Pepys's strongest interests. (1) The music collection consists of seventy volumes, chiefly of vocal and instrumental music representative of the tastes and interests of the amateur. It ranges from psalm-books to operas, and the composers inlude Henry Lawes, Finger, Grabu, A. Scarlatti and Purcell. Pepys was a musician as well as a music lover, and collected treatises on the subject of musical theory (e.g. by Mersenne and Kircher) and items of historical interest. (2) The voluminous map collection, with only few exceptions, was a by-product of Pepys's work at the Admiralty and was made for use. Hence its concentration on material related to navigation. Contained in a variety of formats — as separate maps and charts, atlases, books of travel and topography, and manuscript journals of naval commanders — its size and… Read More

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1975. Cloth, 4to, 28 cm,. xi, 188 pp, ills, facs. Contents: I. A Successor to Steele: Bibliographical ‘Forms'; Music Type; II. The Politics Of The Music Patents: William Seres (1553); John Day (1559); Thomas Talus and William Byrd (1575); Richard Day's Assignees (1584); Thomas East (1588); Thomas Morley (1598); The Company of Stationers (1603); William Barley (1606); III. Psalm Books: Mixed Copies; Three Early Music Type Faces; John Day's Part-Book Type Face; Granjon Music Type; The Small Type Faces of Van den Keere (?) and Granjon (?); Other Type Faces Used in Psalm Books; Solfège Type; Special Aspects and Later History of the Printing of Psalm Books; IV. Part Books: Music Layout; Haultin's Part-Book Type and Its Derivatives; Other Part-Book Type Faces; Tablature Books; V. Song Books: John Playford; Playford's Associates and Successors; Round-Note Type Faces; VI. Engravings, Broadside Ballads, And Song Sheets: The… Read More

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1975. Cloth, 4to, 28 cm,. xi, 188 pp, ills, facs. Contents: I. A Successor to Steele: Bibliographical ‘Forms'; Music Type; II. The Politics Of The Music Patents: William Seres (1553); John Day (1559); Thomas Talus and William Byrd (1575); Richard Day's Assignees (1584); Thomas East (1588); Thomas Morley (1598); The Company of Stationers (1603); William Barley (1606); III. Psalm Books: Mixed Copies; Three Early Music Type Faces; John Day's Part-Book Type Face; Granjon Music Type; The Small Type Faces of Van den Keere (?) and Granjon (?); Other Type Faces Used in Psalm Books; Solfège Type; Special Aspects and Later History of the Printing of Psalm Books; IV. Part Books: Music Layout; Haultin's Part-Book Type and Its Derivatives; Other Part-Book Type Faces; Tablature Books; V. Song Books: John Playford; Playford's Associates and Successors; Round-Note Type Faces; VI. Engravings, Broadside Ballads, And Song Sheets: The… Read More

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1975. Cloth, 4to, 28 cm,. xi, 188 pp, ills, facs. Contents: I. A Successor to Steele: Bibliographical ‘Forms'; Music Type; II. The Politics Of The Music Patents: William Seres (1553); John Day (1559); Thomas Talus and William Byrd (1575); Richard Day's Assignees (1584); Thomas East (1588); Thomas Morley (1598); The Company of Stationers (1603); William Barley (1606); III. Psalm Books: Mixed Copies; Three Early Music Type Faces; John Day's Part-Book Type Face; Granjon Music Type; The Small Type Faces of Van den Keere (?) and Granjon (?); Other Type Faces Used in Psalm Books; Solfège Type; Special Aspects and Later History of the Printing of Psalm Books; IV. Part Books: Music Layout; Haultin's Part-Book Type and Its Derivatives; Other Part-Book Type Faces; Tablature Books; V. Song Books: John Playford; Playford's Associates and Successors; Round-Note Type Faces; VI. Engravings, Broadside Ballads, And Song Sheets: The… Read More

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th November, 1982. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 113 pp, ills, facs. 187 lots. Among the highlights noted were Autograph Manuscripts of Stravinsky, 'the Rite of Spring' J. S. Bach, Cantatas 'O Ewigkeir, du Donnerwort', BWV 20 and 'Herr Jesu Christ, Du Hochstes Gut' BWV 113, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rondo for Horn and Orchestra K. 371 and Sections from Grabmusik, K. 42/35a, Ravel's Version of Mussorgsky's 'Khovanshchina', Honegger, 'Chota Rustaveli', Richard Strauss, 'Aus Italien', an Autograph 'Ricordo' and Sketch by Michelangelo, the Certificate of Marriage Between Napoleon and Josephine' a Fine Autograph Letter by Napoleon to His Brother About Josephine, the Autograph Draft of Mussolini's Declaration of War, Letters and Poetical Manuscripts of Pablo Neruda, Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra with Grand Duke Michael; Autograph Letters… Read More

Bernard Quaritch, London, first edition, November 1886. Limited edition of 150 demy 8vo copies from a total edition of 180. Quarter-leather and pebblegrain cloth, 8vo, 22 cm,. xv, 191 pp, facs. A valuable catalogue with detailed descriptions by the author of 'Bibliographia liturgica'. From the author's preface: "The larger portion [of this catalogue] is devoted to a careful description of the most important liturgical manuscripts and of all the printed liturgical books exhibited. ... The notice of each book, generally based on the collation of several copies, is followed by a description of the copy or copies exhibited, and a chronological list of the works in which the book is noticed, those which merely repeat previous descriptions being placed within brackets. The two last sections of the Catalogue contain the treatises on music, manuscript and printed, and such of the collections of sacred and secular music as I was able to take notes of before the dispersal of the… Read More

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1962. Cloth, 8vo,. xliii, 63 pp. Approximately 800 entries. From the introduction: "While there are bibliographies of incunabula which deal with the theory of music, there are no bibliographies of those which contain actual music. These are, with few, possibly three or four, exceptions, liturgical books...This catalogue contains descriptions of the printed music in liturgical incunabula in the great libraries in England and France, and the United States. It seeks to compare the different methods of printing music and to define the different styles, thus providing new means for identifying single leaves and determining variants of so-called 'editions'. Very Good.

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1962. Cloth, 8vo,. xliii, 63 pp. Approximately 800 entries. From the introduction: "While there are bibliographies of incunabula which deal with the theory of music, there are no bibliographies of those which contain actual music. These are, with few, possibly three or four, exceptions, liturgical books...This catalogue contains descriptions of the printed music in liturgical incunabula in the great libraries in England and France, and the United States. It seeks to compare the different methods of printing music and to define the different styles, thus providing new means for identifying single leaves and determining variants of so-called 'editions'. Booklabel on front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Fine.

Basil Blackwell, Oxford, second edition incorporating the Supplement, 1970. Cloth, paper spine-label, 8vo, 26 cm,. vii, 392 pp, facs. The present dictionary is ... an entirely new publication, based in the main upon original research by the authors over the many years of their long association together in the music section of the Department of Printed Books, British Museum. ...a number of the later less important London and provincial publishers may have been omitted. Apart from such omissions the dictionary does present as full a list as possible of the name: of every person and firm known to have been engaged in any way in the printing, engraving, publishing, selling and advertising of music in the British Isles up to about the middle of the nineteenth century, including some musical instrument makers and general booksellers who are known to have sold or issued music, little or much. The names of engravers of title-pages or frontispieces, otherwise not concerned with the production of the music,… Read More

Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, first edition, 1954. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. ix, 354 pp, facs. Covers slightly rubbed, spine-ends slightly bumped, otherwise Good in a browned dustwrapper which is torn with loss.

Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, N.J., first separate edition, 1971. Cloth, small 8vo, 20 cm,. [x], 365 pp. Approximately 1,800 entries. A separate volume containing the bibliographical entries relating to bibliographies on Music, Drama, Opera and related subjects extracted from the 5 volumes of Besterman's monumental "A world bibliography of bibliographies and of bibliographical catalogues, calendars, abstracts, digests, indexes, and the like" (4th and best edition). The coverage is geographically very wide-ranging, and includes both separately published books and monographs and serial publications (though not bibliographies appearing in periodicals). Classified arrangement (an author index would have been valuable). Besterman's indication of the approximate number of entries contained in each work is particularly useful. Top edge of textblock smokestained, otherwise Good.

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1997. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. xlix, 521 pp, plates. From the introduction: "This bibliography offers descriptions of almost 2000 issues of secular vocal music published in England 1703-1726, including works by Giovanni Bononcini, Henry Purcell, John Weldon, Attilio Ariosti and Richard Leveridge. The only exclusions are 'reprints' or subsequent volumes of books first published before 1703, books comprising solely the work of Handel, and the issues of the Monthly Mask of Vocal Music. The book indexes 2296 song first lines. The books described here represent the first extended effort to issue entirely commercial printed versions of musical stage works and they are also the first song books to be printed by engraving on a systematic basis. The book is a sequel to Day and Murrie's English Song Books 1651-1702, published by the Bibliographical Society in 1940, and augments David Foxon's English Verse 1701-1750. In addition to clarifying the… Read More

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1997. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. xlix, 521 pp, plates. From the introduction: "This bibliography offers descriptions of almost 2000 issues of secular vocal music published in England 1703-1726, including works by Giovanni Bononcini, Henry Purcell, John Weldon, Attilio Ariosti and Richard Leveridge. The only exclusions are 'reprints' or subsequent volumes of books first published before 1703, books comprising solely the work of Handel, and the issues of the Monthly Mask of Vocal Music. The book indexes 2296 song first lines. The books described here represent the first extended effort to issue entirely commercial printed versions of musical stage works and they are also the first song books to be printed by engraving on a systematic basis. The book is a sequel to Day and Murrie's English Song Books 1651-1702, published by the Bibliographical Society in 1940, and augments David Foxon's English Verse 1701-1750. In addition to clarifying the… Read More