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1629rif. 27807London: Printed for the Company of Stationers 1629. Title within woodcut historiated border512 15 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary olive morocco 2 gilt outer panels with gilt-stamped lozenge on upper and lower cover ties lost black leather title lanbel a.e.g. Signed on back free-endppaer "Mary Crosse/Mary Crosse/ Her Booke/1678. Title within woodcut historiated border512 15 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for the London Company of Stationers the organization that policed the London print trade. This book bears a near-contemporary ownership inscription by a woman implying that this copy at least was owned personally and used outside of church. Printed for the Company of Stationers unknown books
1928rif. 54668Paris et Bruxelles: G. van Oest 1928. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 159 miniatures. x 113 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled paper boards gilt-lettered spine raised bands t.e.g.; with the original blue printed wrappers bound in. Fine. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 159 miniatures. x 113 pp. 1 vols. Folio. G. van Oest unknown books
1805rif. 13759London: C. Clarke 1805. Nouvelle Edition réimprimée après celle de Didot. With 12 full-page engraved plates. 255 3; vi 246 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary English straight-grain red morocco gilt classical border of Greek key and acanthus design on upper and lower covers panelled spine gilt with similar motifs a.e.g. hinges and extremities slightly rubbed occasional foxing but overall fine and attractive. From the library of Marshall Field with his engraved armorial bookplate on each pastedown. Nouvelle Edition réimprimée après celle de Didot. With 12 full-page engraved plates. 255 3; vi 246 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. C. Clarke unknown books
1875rif. 31440London: 56 Regents Park Road 1875. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. On a stub attached to a larger colored sheet some discoloration of larger sheet folds else very good. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th "which wil be rather supplemental to thatn an repetition of my Glasgow lecture. If it is well reported as I expect it will be in one of the Belfast papers would a revised Report be of any value to you" Carpenter was noted for his research in botany microscopy zoology and physiology and was a co-leader of the research team in 1868-70 on the deep sea scientific expedition aboard the "Lightning" and "Challenger." Youmans was the founder of "Popular Science Monthly' and planned the "International Scientific Series" he was a noted lecturer on science and author of several works. Provenance: From the autograph collection of W. P. Webster 56 Regents Park Road unknown books
1795rif. 212574London: Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman 1795. First editions. Engraved frontispiece to third playe Windsor Castle. 4 86 1; 8 84; 8 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter blue polished calf gilt spine t.e.g. Covers detached. First editions. Engraved frontispiece to third playe Windsor Castle. 4 86 1; 8 84; 8 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman unknown books
1896rif. 89064Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company 1896. First Edition. First printing. Two tall octavo volumes 25cm. Publisher's pebble-grained brown cloth with gilt ornaments and spine titles; 1-586 587-1186pp; text illustrations. Minor spotting to cloth else a tight clean set; Very Good. Ownership signature of a "W.R. Shackleford" to front endpaper of each volume dated 1920. An exhaustive popular history of post-colonial westward expansion into the territories of modern-day western Pennsylvania Ohio and Kentucky; with detailed accounts of the major battles and skirmishes in the western theatre during the American Revolution and immediately after. HOWES E-157. Bowen-Merrill Company unknown books
1850rif. 412931850. Folio 246 x 293 mm. Contemporary plain brown wrappers with octagonal paper label to upper titled "Music Miscellaneous Piece." Notated on 12-stave rastrum-ruled paper. 26 pp. 2ff. blank. Contains operatic and dance numbers by composers including Auber Bellini Cimarosa Donizetti Handel Mozart Verdi et al. scored for solo violin and duo violins in score: Polka Militaire Canthel La Fugitive Valsa Jullien Air in Don Giovanni Mozart Round about the Maypole Arne The Patriots Welcome Russell Dead March in Saul Handel Grand March in Alfred the Great Cimarosa Fragments de Lutzow Weber On yonder rock reclining Auber Waltz Strauss Der Scottisch Pupeski The Nuptial Serenade Mancinelli and selections from operas by Bellini Donizetti and Verdi. Wrappers worn. Minor wear soiling and staining. unknown books
rif. 40330Oblong folio 227 x 293 mm. Disbound. i manuscript index tipped-in 233 pp. including three blanks. Notated on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper with watermark of a shield with "GR" below. Contains the following works: 1. Clari Giovanni Carlo Maria 1677-1754 adapted by Charles Avison 1709-1770. "Unto the Lord." Duet. 16 pp. 2. Clari/Avison. "O all ye Nations." Duet. 10 pp. 3. Carissimi Giacomo 1605-1674. "Hodie Simon Petrus." Duet. 5 pp. 4. Carissimi. "O nomen Jesu." Duet. 4 pp. Attributed to Giovanni Battista Bassani in RISM ID: 800226688. 5. Steffani Agostino 1654-1728. "Saldi marmi." Duet. 19 pp. 6. Steffani. "Dolce è per voi." Duet. 9 pp. 7. Clari. "L'Amante disperato" "O femina mendace". Duet. 16 pp. 8. Steffani. "M'hai da piangere." Duet. 11 pp. 9. Steffani. "Dolce labbro." Duet. 9 pp. 10. Purcell Henry 1659-1695. "In guilty Night." Trio. 9 pp. 11. Anon. "O sanctissima." Duet. 1 p. Not in index. 12. Handel George Frederic 1685-1659. "T'amo sì." Duet. Full score. 12 pp. 13. Kent James. 1700-1776. "Hear my prayer." Anthem for two solo voices and four-part choir. 10 pp. 14. Marcello Benedetto 1686-1739. "My God my God." Solo. Full score. 16 pp. 15. Marcello. "Da voi parto." Solo cantata. 10 pp. 16. Astorga Emanuele. "Ruscelletto che vai." Solo cantata. 10 pp. 17. Clari. "Ecco Amor ecco Amore." Trio. 21 pp. 18. Astorga. "Oh che voi direste bene." Duet. 14 pp. 19. Caldara Antonio 1671-1736. "Voi vene pentirete." Duet. 4 pp 20. Kent. "When the son of Man shall come." Anthem for three voices. 15 pp. Incomplete. All pieces in a single hand with the exception of items 11 and 20 in two different hands. With "Lady Cornewall" in contemporary manuscript to upper margin of index; "1792" to upper outer corner and "554" to upper inner corner of first page. Occasional pencil annotations including figured bass; half a measure canceled on p. 185. Disbound; first signature detached. Occasional small tears to edges; several minor inkstains to pp. 56-57; pp. 124-125 excised likely due to a scribal error with no loss of music; contemporary repairs to upper outer margin of p. 7; final leaf detached; remnants of red sealing wax to corners of index. It is notable that the all of the music in the present manuscript is drawn from repertoire significantly older than the manuscript's date of 1792 in some cases over 100 years earlier performance of music of the past being a relatively novel concept at the time. The Academy of Ancient Music was "founded as the Academy of Vocal Music in 1726 to revive the glories of 16th- and 17th-century sacred music and madrigals. Again though it was the music itself rather than profit that provided the inspiration the founders a mix of leading professionals and aristocratic enthusiasts; and again the society was formalized and admitted larger audiences as the century progressed - although these changes brought their own problems with an increasing partiality for later Baroque music including Handel's oratorios and a gradual decline in missionary zeal for the older repertory." Simon McVeigh in Oxford Music Online "Lady Cornewall" was most likely Catherine Cornewall 1752-1835 wife of Sir George Amyand Cornewall 1748-1819 a portrait of whom by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 is held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The manuscript index is possibly in her hand. "Rather different in character was the collection made by the Cornewall family of Moccas Court Herefordshire which has almost entirely vanished. Fortunately a detailed and most interesting manuscript catalogue dated 1796 and now owned by Albi Rosenthal has survived. This was predominantly a vocal collection amounting to about 2000 items with some Italian bias but besides Alessandro Scarlatti and Jomelli it extended to Gluck. A special section of the catalogue dated 1795 contained music belonging to a Miss Cornewall who also owned R.C.M. MSS. 2061-4." A. Hyatt King: Some British Collectors of Music p. 17. unknown books
1986rif. 88358n.p.: Privately Published 1986. Softcover with A.L.s. dated 1986 from translator laid in. Quarto 28cm; yellow paper wrappers with mylar overlay to front wrapper; printed on recto only; 112pp. Trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Collection of verse by Sutzkever and Manger translated to English by Wolfe includes "Song About an Ant" "I Know Now the Taste" "On the Kolomay Station" and "In the Smoke of My Grandfather's Pipe". This is a typed manuscript sent in advance to Nathaniel Tarn the noted poet translator and anthropologist 1928-2024. The laid-in letter discusses this work requested by Tarn and Wolfe's plans for them to meet again soon. 88358. Privately Published unknown books
rif. 41155Folio. 19th half black leather with marbled boards spine in compartments gilt with titling gilt. Engraved throughout with the exception of the ninth songsheet which is typeset. Provenance Evan Charles Sutherland-Walker 1835-1914 with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Contains 25 songs including works by Arne Bride Dibdin Clarke Galliard Handel Harington Hook Jackson Leveridge Selby Smith and others. With occasional ornamentation filling out of chords and corrections in contemporary manuscript. 1. Clark. "The Broom on Cowdenknows" "When Summer comes the Swains on Tweed". London ca. 1780. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 1075. Jeremiah Clarke ca. 1743-1809 English composer violinist and organist; his published works all printed in London consist of songs and keyboard sonatas with instrumental accompaniment. 2. Dibdin. "While the Lads of the Village . Sung by Mr. Bannister." "J.W." printed to foot of music. London: John Welcker ca. 1775. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 1078. Charles Dibdin 1745-1814 English composer dramatist poet actor singer and entertainer wrote many songs. 3. Arne. "Water Parted from the Sea . Sung by Mr. Tenducci in Artaxerxes." London ca. 1765. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 57. Alfred Thomas Augustine Arne 1710-1778 an English composer violinist and keyboard player was "the most significant figure in 18th-century English theatre music." Peter Holman and Todd Gilman in Grove Music Online 4. Jackson. "Delia . Sung by Mr. Squibb at Marybone! Gardens. Set to Music by Mr. Wm. Jackson of Exeter." London ca. 1770. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 552. William Jackson 1730-1803 an English composer and organist wrote a number of songs canzonets etc. "His best music is to be found in his secular vocal works where he demonstrates an ability to blend a natural melodic style with a sensitivity to text." Richard McGrady in Grove Music Online 5. Galliard. "The Early Horn . A Fav'rite Song in the Royal Chace. Sung by Mr. Beard. Set by Mr. Galliard." London ca. 1737. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. Paginated 31 at upper outer corner. BUC p. 358. John Ernest Galliard ca. 1687-1749 German composer and oboist "certainly played a significant role in London's musical life in the first half of the 18th century." Roger Fiske revised by Richard G. King in Grove Music Online 6. Smith. "Zoreb and Zaida . Sung by Mr. Morgan." London ca. 1770. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. JISC one copy only at Oxford University. 7. Handel. "Let me Wander . L'Allegro Il Penseroso." London: Printed for J. Bland No. 45 Holborn ca. 1790. 1f. recto blank verso music pp. HWV 55. BUC p. 433. George Frideric Handel 1685-1759 English composer of German birth was "one of the greatest composers of his age." Anthony Hicks in Grove Music Online 8. Handel. "L'Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato Or Let the Merry Bells." London: Bland ca. 1790. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. HWV 55. BUC p. 433. 9. Bride. "The Joy-Inspiring Horn . A Favorite Hunting-Song. Set by Mr. Bride." London: R. Falkener ca. 1775. i blank 2 i blank pp. BUC p. 135. Typeset with an arrangement for two German flutes in score on the second page. Tear extending from lower margin into three systems of music; small loss to lower outer corner of first page of music; imprint trimmed but possibly the Falkener edition where the imprint appears at the foot of the second page of music. OCLC 43123680. 10. Handel. "Sung by Mr. Beard in Alexander's Feast" "Happy happy pair". London ca. 1740. i blank 2 i blank pp. HWV 75. Not in BUC. 11. Leveridge. "The Roast Beef Cantata." London ca. 1770. 4 pp. BUC p. 1026. Richard Leveridge 1670-1758 English bass and composer was "a leading singer on the London stage and a popular composer of songs." Olive Baldwin revised by Thelma Wilson in Grove Music Online 12. "The Camp Medley" "The Lark was up the Morn was grey". London: Longman & Broderip ca. 1780. BUC p. 595. 4 pp. With trill markings in contemporary manuscript. 13. "The Banks of the Dee A favorite Song" "It was summer". London: Bland ca. 1780. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 549 other editions. 14. "He Stole my Tender Heart Away . A Favorite Song" "The Fields were green". London ca. 1780. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 334. 15. Hook. "The Favorite Song Sung by Miss Brown in the Scheming Lieutenant" "Beneath a green shade". London: CST handstamp Charles and Samuel Thompson ca. 1775. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. JISC two copies at the British Library and the National Library of Scotland. James Hook 1746-1827 was a noted English composer whose songs were "regularly performed at the main London pleasure gardens." Pamela Gairl in Grove Music Online 16. "Social Pow'rs . A Favourite Song" "Come now all ye Social Pow'rs". London: Printed for J. Bland No. 45 Holborn ca. 1785. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 208. 17. "The Invitation Sung at Marybone Gardens by Mrs. Vincent. Mr Lowe. Miss Davis. Mr Raworth. and Mr Taylor" "Come ye party Jangling Swains". London ca. 1766. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 209. 18. Selby. "The Chace of the Hare . A New Hunting Song." 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 940. Minor loss to flute line. 19. "Fair Hebe. Sung by Mr. Beard at Ranelagh Gardens" "Hebe I left with a cautious Design". London ca. 1750. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 324. With "Fair Hebe" in contemporary manuscript to blank verso. 20. Harington. "Air. by Mr. Harington of Bath" Gentle Airs sweet Joys impart". London ca. 1780. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 446. Henry Harington 1727-1816 English composer physician and author was a leading contemporary composer of glees catches and duets. 21. Arne. "The favourite Hymn of Eve. In the Oratorio of Abel" "How Chearful along the gay Mead". London ca. 1755. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. JISC one copy only at Oxford University. 22. "The Cotillon" "Hail Politeness pow'r divine". London: Rd. B__e ca. 1770. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 416. 23. Arne. "The Echoing Horn in Thomas & Sally." London: Printed and sold by S. Phillips in St. Martins Court ca. 1765. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 45. 24. Arne. "Hebe . Set by Dr. Arne" "When forc'd from dear Hebe". London: Walsh 1752. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 47 25. "Anna A Particular Favourite Irish Song. Sung by Miss Catley - and - Mr. Leoni." "Shepherds I have lost my Love". London: I. F.entum ca. 1775. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 943. Bound with: Clark. Eight Songs with Instrumental Parts in Score Composed by Jeremiah Clark Organist in Birmingham Opera Seconda. London: Printed for the Author and Sold by Messrs. Straight & Skillern Music Engravers and Printers in St. Martins Lane near Charing Cross ca. 1775. 1f. recto title verso blank 34 pp. Engraved throughout. BUC p. 94. RISM C2618 and CC2618 two copies in the U.S. at Cornell University and the Library of Congress. Index in pencil to front free endpaper. Binding worn rubbed and bumped. Slightly worn; occasional minor imperfections including small tears soiling and stains. unknown books
rif. 41185Folio. Contemporary dark brown leather-backed blue/gray boards. Titled "A collection of Songs by several eminent Masters" in contemporary manuscript on recto of first page of music. Engraved throughout. Provenance With "Lucy Gregory July the 6th 1756" and "Prince Gregory" in contemporary manuscript to front pastedown. Manuscript titling and annotation "Ex dono Revd. Dr. Dawson For use of Musical Society Windsor Castle to be returned to Dr. Dawson When ye club ceases viz when it is reduced to three persons" to blank recto of first song along with title and index to blank verso of final song. Contains 33 songs including works by Barrett Blow Eccles Galliard Handel 8 Leveridge Orlandini Pepusch Daniel Purcell Henry Purcell 2 Weldon and others. Scored mainly for voice most for one voice and few for two and figured basso continuo with single-line flute arrangements for some songs. 1. Handel. "A Favorite song in the Opera of Theseus" "See see your faithfull lover pineing". London ca. 1720. i blank 2 i blank pp. BUC p. 1001. 2. Purcell H. "Sing all ye muses. A song set by Mr. Henr. Purcell The Words by Mr Durfey." London ca. 1700. From Part I of The Comical History of Don Quixote. 4 pp. BUC p. 861 another edition. Scored for two voices and figured basso continuo. 3. Handel. "Mi brilla in English and Italian" "Be Kind and Love" / "Mi brilla nel seno". London ca. 1720. i blank 2 i blank pp. HWV 10 Silla.BUC p. 93. 4. Purcell H. "The Mad Dialogue Sung by Mr. Leveridge and Mrs. Lynsey" "Behold the man with gigantick might". From The Richmond Heiress. London ca. 1700. 3 i blank pp. BUC p. 862. 5. Handel. "Vieni torna in English & Italian" "Turn o turn thee dearest Creature / Vieni torna Idolo mio". London ca. 1715. i blank 2 i blank pp. HWV 9 Teseo. BUC p. 1041. 6. Handel. "A Favourite Song by an Eminent Master Within the Compass of the Flute" Recitativo: "Lo here my Love" / Aria: "Love in her eyes sits playing". London ca. 1725. i blank 2 i blank pp. BUC p. 624. 7. Handel. "A Song with a Symphony for an Octave Flute & Violins" Recitativo: "Ye verdant Plains" / Aria: "Hush ye pretty warbling Quire". London ca. 1722. i 3 paginated 4-6 i blank pp. HWV 49 Acis and Galatea. BUC p. 432 date incorrect; JISC two copies at Oxford and the British Library. In score for piccolo violin voice and unfigured basso continuo. 8. Handel. "A song by an Eminent Master" "Would you gain the tender Creature". London ca. 1750. HWV 49 Acis and Galatea. BUC pp. 432 1091. 9. Eccles. "Air in the Opera Semele. The words by Mr Congreve" "Come Zephrys". London ca. 1730. i blank 2 i blank pp. BUC p. 309. 10. Orlandini. "A favourite Song in the Opera of Arsaces Sung by Sigr. Senesino" "Se sol la mia morte" / "Cœlestial Corinna". London ca. 1721. i blank 2 i blank pp. BUC p. 56. "Lucy Gregory" in contemporary manuscript to upper outer corner of final blank page. 11. Anon. "The Ladys Repulse or Favourite Minuet in Hercules" a pasticcio. London ca. 1715. 2 pp. BUC p. 478. 12. Barrett. "A Song sett by Mr. Iohn Barrett Sung by Mrs. Lindsey" "Mistake not Nymph". London ca. 1705. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 86. 13. Barrett. "Liberia A Song Set to Musick" "Liberia's all my Thought". London ca. 1715. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 86. 14. Purcell D. "Lovely Charmer. A song in the Island Princess." London ca. 1700. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 856. 15. Leveridge. "A Favorite Song in the new Opera The words by Mr. Leveridge." London ca. 1720. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 339. 16. Anon. "Tom a Bedlam" "Forth from my dark and Dismall cell". London ca. 1720. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 345. 17. Leveridge. "A Scotch Song Sung by Mr. Leveridge the words by Mr Durfey" "Farewell my Bonny". London ca. 1710. 1f. recto music paginated "10" verso blank pp. BUC p. 325. 18. Blow. "Go Perjur'd Man. A Song for two Voices." London ca. 1710. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 115. 19. Anon. "A song by a Gentleman" "How charming". London ca. 1730. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 370. 20. Weldon. "Orpheus Song to the Waves Sett by Mr. Iohn Weldon Sung by Mrs. Linsey." "Stop O ye Waves". London ca. 1710. 1f. recto song verso version for flute pp. BUC p. 1065. 21. Anon. "A Song by a Great Master" "Beauteous Idol charming Creature". London ca. 1720. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 93. 22. Turner. "A Song On Mira's Singing and Beauty" "Singing charms The Bless'd above". London ca. 1710. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 1024. 23. M. F. "A song in the Italian style by F M" "Ah Crudel prenesto". London ca. 1720. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 638. A humorous song satirizing Italian opera with text in nonsense-Italian. 24. Galliard. "Sung by Mr. Pack in The Opera of Circe" "Fairest if thou can'st be King". London ca. 1720. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 358. 25. Vanbrughe. "Apollo to Daphne by Mr. Vanbrughe" "My Dearest Daphne". London ca. 1735. Not in BUC but may be from Vanbrughe's collection Mirth & Harmony; see BUC p. 1034. 26. Anon. "The Address with The Lady's Answer" "Ah lovely Nymph". London ca. 1725. 1f. recto music paginated "7" verso blank pp. BUC p. 11. 27. Handel. "A Song the words by Mr. Kirkland set to a Trumpet Minuet of Mr. Hendell's" "Phillis the Lovely". London ca. 1725. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. HWV 349 Watermusic. BUC p. 781. 28. Young and Leveridge. "The Reproach" "Send back my long stray'd Eyes" and "Mr. Leveridge's Tune." London ca. 1720. 1f. recto music verso blank. BUC p. 1098. The instrumental tune appears to be unrelated to the song; here may however be some association as the song incorporates imagery related to the eyes and the tune's name not given here is "Black-eyed Susan." 29. Anon. "A Song after the Italian Manner by an Eminent Master" "Lovely cruel charming fair". London ca. 1715. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 632 another edition. 30. Handel. "Di godere in English & Italian by Mr. Hendell" "Di godere" / "Oh my dearest". London ca. 1720. 1f. recto music verso blank. HWV 228. Not in BUC; possibly related to an edition in Foundling Museum. JISC "This song appeared in two editions in 1719: the first was in The Yearly Subscriptions a volume of twenty songs advertised on 5 December the second in the Monthly Mask of Vocal Music issued on 24 December". 31. Pepusch. "A Song in the Mask of Martillo" "Tender Hearts to ev'ry Passion". London ca. 1716. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 722. 32. Carey. "The Midsummer Wish Taken from the Journal" "Waft me some soft and cooling Breeze". London ca. 1725. 1f. recto music verso blank pp. BUC p. 165. 33. Leveridge. "A Song in the Beau Demolish'd Sung by Mr. Leveridge" "Whilst I'm carrouzing". London ca. 1730. 1f. recto music verso index in contemporary manuscript pp. BUC p. 615. Binding worn rubbed and bumped; spine partially lacking; lower board nearly detached. Minor dampstaining and worming; occasional small stains. John Barrett ca. 1674-ca. 1745 was an English composer and organist pupil of John Blow. "Like many of his contemporaries such as Jeremiah Clarke John Eccles and Daniel Purcell Barrett composed mainly for the theatre and his many songs mostly of the double-barrelled art song variety are both tuneful and attractive." Christopher Powell revised by H. Diack Johnstone in Grove Music Online John Blow 1649-1708 was an English composer organist and teacher. "By his mid-20s he had become the foremost musician in England and in later years he was the elder statesman of the Restoration school whose chief luminary was Henry Purcell." Bruce Wood in Grove Music Online John Eccles ca. 1668-1735 was an English composer. "Eccles's greatest talent is revealed in his many songs. Remarkable for their beautifully contoured melodies and impeccable prosody they quickly capture the mood and subtleties of the poetry and are eminently singable. His large works are notable for their dramatic pacing and their carefully planned tonal architecture. In the latter respect he surpassed even Purcell and was far in advance of his day. Eccles brought the Restoration tradition to its close. After Purcell's death in 1695 he was undoubtedly the greatest of the Restoration theatre composers." Stoddard Lincoln in Grove Music Online John Ernest Galliard ca. 1687-1749 German composer and oboist "certainly played a significant role in London's musical life in the first half of the 18th century." Roger Fiske revised by Richard G. King in Grove Music Online George Frideric Handel 1685-1759 English composer of German birth was "one of the greatest composers of his age." Anthony Hicks in Grove Music Online Richard Leveridge 1670-1758 English bass and composer was "a leading singer on the London stage and a popular composer of songs." Olive Baldwin revised by Thelma Wilson in Grove Music Online. Giuseppe Maria Orlandini 1676-1760 was an Italian composer. "The large number and wide spread of performances of his operas confirm the opinions of Burney La Borde Martini and Quadrio that Orlandini was highly celebrated as a composer of dramatic music. He was best known for his comic intermezzos in which genre his importance almost certainly outweighs that of Pergolesi. Indeed Orlandini's Bacocco e Serpilla under various titles and with added music by various composers appears to have been the most frequently performed piece of musical drama in the entire 18th century." John Walter Hill and Francesco Giuntini in Grove Music Online Johann Christoph Pepusch 1667-1752 a German-born composer and theorist active in England is best known for his arrangement of music for The Beggar's Opera to John Gay's libretto; he composed works in all genres including vocal music. Daniel Purcell ca. 1664-1717 brother or cousin of Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist. "Although he was a victim of invidious comparison with Henry Daniel was a talented composer whose style while perhaps too ornate is never dull or incompetent." Mark Humphreys revised by Robert Thompson in Grove Music Online Henry Purcell 1659-1695 composer and organist "was one of the most important 17th century composers and one of the greatest of all English composers." Peter Holman and Robert Thompson in Grove Music Online John Weldon 1676-1736 an English organist and composer "of considerable talent" was a pupil of Henry Purcell. Margaret Laurie revised by Stephen Bullamore in Grove Music Online. unknown books
1997rif. 88608Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag 1997. First English Trade Edition with U.S. distribution by Distributed Art Publishers. Quarto 28cm; silver textured boards with titling stamped in black to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 830pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations. Trace soil to front lower board edge else Near Fine. Dustwrapper has trace shelf-soil and light shelf-wear with surface scratches; Very Good. Group of images and documents from 1945-1997 discuss the relationship between art and politics and concludes with essays and interviews. Translation from French by Brian Holmes and Charles Penwarden. 88608. Cantz Verlag unknown books
1977rif. 88628Flagstaff Arizona: Museum of Northern Arizona 1977-1979. First Edition. First five issues of monograph series American Tribal Religions all softcovers. Five Octavo volumes 22.5cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 157pp; 172pp; 208pp; 153pp; 152pp; black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations throughout. From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to half-title pages of all five issues. Light shelf-wear and rubbing with price stickers to verso of front wrappers and half-title pages; overall Very Good. Includes contributions by Hoffman Birney Ruth M. Underhill Jose Pancho and David Lopez. All five issues edited by Luckert with English translation assistance by Irvy W. Goosseen Harry Bilagodr Jr. and Johnny C. Cooke. 88628. Museum of Northern Arizona unknown books
1937rif. 1267221937. San Francisco: Book Club of California 1937. Slim folio i xxii 2 pp. original leaf from the Apocrypha tipped in between pages 16 and 17. Double columns printed in red and black throughout initials hand-illuminated in red blue yellow and gold. Original quarter cloth paper backstrip label. A very good copy touch of foxing to boards fine internally. § One of 300 copies. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. The leaf contains the text of 2 Maccabees 14:36 to the end including the show-stopping death of Razis the triumph of Judas and the death of Nicanor. "An extremely handsome book which drew praise from both contributing essayists and many Club members some of whom found in this volume a relief from the Western Americana theme which had predominated in the Club's publications of the past five years." Magee 51. unknown books
1914rif. 7040London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society 1914. First thus. Fine. One of 500 copies on paper twelve copies on vellum were also produced printed by C.T Jacobi and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner. Original full limp vellum binding titled in gilt and retaining the original fore-edge ties. Quarto. xv 1 88 pp. Printed on handmade paper in the signature Riccardi Press typeface. With ornaments and ten mounted color plates including frontispiece by Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 each with a printed tissue guard. Title-page lettering by Edith M. Engall. Ink gift inscription dated 1918 and mid-twentieth century ink ownership signature to upper flyleaf. A Fine bright copy. Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 was an accomplished painter and illustrator. His painting The Death of Abel held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris is considered his most enduring work. "This work was the source of an illustration for The Book of Genesis published by the Riccardi Press in 1914; together with another masterpiece The Death of Rachel it constitutes his finest achievement as a book illustrator" ODNB. Robinson's illustrations for The Book of Genesis epitomize his melancholy style which reflected the influence of both ornate art deco aesthetics and the somber clarity of the Symbolist movement. Fine. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society unknown books
1922rif. 84924New York: Brentanos Publishers 1922. First American Edition. Early English translation preserving original Russian meaning. Octavo 19.5cm; tan marbled paper-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on front cover; red topstain; fore- and lower-edges untrimmed; dustjacket; 89pp; black-and-white photographic halftone and illustrations to frontispiece and in text on glossy paper. The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays. Light tanning to spine and board margins; Very Good. Dustwrapper detached completey at front spine fold with 0.5" chip to upper spine panel titling laid in 4.5" tear to front flap fold tanned tiny nicks dampstain to front panel and tiny chips and creases to extremities; Good. Written and produced in 1902 Gorky's first major success explores Russian social realism with characters including a young thief a street-walker and a cap-maker. 84924. Brentanos Publishers unknown books
2000rif. 85138New York: Harry N Abrams Inc. Publishers 2000. Quarto 31.5cm; cream cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and blind embossed to spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 48pp; black-and-white photographic halftones illustrations to frontispiece and throughout. Remainder mark to upper edge of textblock light rubbing to board edges and tiny marginal mark to p.394; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $60.00 with sticker residue to front panel trivial surface wear and creases to extremities; Very Good. Sections include "Russian Fashion During World War I and the Great Exodus" "The Tao House of Fashion" and "Russian Beauties of the 1930s and 1940s" with photographs throughout. 85138. Harry N, Abrams, Inc., Publishers unknown books
1795rif. 6211London: R. Bowyer 1795. First thus. Near Fine. Two large quarto volumes 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages with a separate title-page for the New Testament and sixty-two plates including two frontispieces from the works of Dürer Rembrandt Van Dyck Rubens and others. Lower corner of 3H3 possible paper-fault torn away with no loss of text. Some foxing to a few of the plates otherwise remarkably bright and fresh. Contemporary English full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Covers with two gilt borders surrounding blind-stamped Greek key design. Spines with five double raised bands ruled in gilt blind-stamped Greek key design and lettered in gilt in compartments. Board-edges decorated in blind elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins gray liners and endleaves all edges gilt. Gift signature to front flyleaf in volume one dated 1841 and a tipped-in square of paper with another nineteenth century gift inscription. Some light scuffing to the boards otherwise near fine. A spectacular example of the large paper edition this Bible sometimes called the "Killer Bible" for its typographical error in Mark 7 verse 27: "Let the children be killed" rather than "filled." It was richly illustrated by James Fittler 1758-1835 an esteemed British engraver of portraits and landscapes who served as marine engraver to King George III. He produced illustrations for the Boydell Shakespeare and Dibdin's Aedes Althorpinae. In this edition Fittler based his engravings on Old Master paintings befitting the gravity of the text. The printer Thomas Bentley produced large editions for Thomas Macklin Rudolph Ackermann and Paul Colnaghi all publishers of plate books; he also printed several of the earliest books for the Roxburghe Club. ESTC lists three editions of the Bowyer and Fittler Bible: this one which ESTC describes as the large paper edition; the regular two-volume quarto edition also 1795; and a: two-volume twelvemo edition 1796 which was issued in parts. ESTC T95050. Near Fine. R. Bowyer unknown books
1772rif. 37112London 1772. 235 x 168 mm. On laid paper with "No. V" printed at lower left. A female singer holds an open music book on her lap entitled "Pastorale by Musolini." A Signor Mussolini is recorded as a singer and mandolin player making his first public appearance at Covent Garden on 27 April 1773 "playing a concerto on the double mandolin and royal guitar and accompanying a young gentlewoman in song." Highfill et al. Vol. 10 p. 407. unknown books
1844rif. 56249Boston 1844. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 24cm. Printed pink paper wrappers; 32pp; wood engraving of Fairchild on front cover and final page. Untrimmed rubbed with marginal chips covers detached minor foxing: Good only. Fairchild a Congregationalist minister was tried for seducing Rhoda Davidson a domestic worker in his employ. This pamphlet reports on his trial by an Ecclesiastical Council in which he was convicted; later he was tried in a Boston municipal court and acquitted. The entire scandal was widely reported on in the New England press. unknown books
1789rif. 36363London: Samuel Ann and Peter Thompson No. 75 St. Paul's Church Yard And may be had at most Music Shops and Booksellers in Town and Country 1789. Folio. Disbound. 4 pp. Contains announcements of newly-published "Dances and Minuets for the Year ensuing; Vocal Music &c.; Psalmodia Evangelica; New Editions of the following Music; New Editions of Instruction Books and Pocket Companions for the following Instruments" and announcements of publications forthcoming in December. Slightly worn and browned; outer edge slightly chipped; leaves loose; binder's holes and chipping to inner margins with minor paper loss. "Peter Thompson was the founder of the important business carried on by the Thompson family for half a century. They were the last survivors of the music trade which once thronged St. Paul's Church Yard and their place of business had very likely been one of the shops held by members of the trade a century or more previously . In 1780 Peter . a grandson of the original founder is added to the firm which now stands as Samuel Ann & Peter and the business prospers still more." Kidson: British Music Publishers Printers and Engravers pp. 125-26. Samuel, Ann, and Peter Thompson, (No. 75) St. Paul's Church Yard, And may be had at most Music Shops and Booksellers in Town and unknown books
1964rif. 9013350New York: Grove Press 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. Grove Press hardcover books
1969rif. 9014499University Alabama: University of Alabama Press 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Near fine condition dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. University of Alabama Press hardcover books
1964rif. 9007143Montrouge France: Gallimard 1964. 1st. paperback. Fine Condition. Number 25 of 26 copies. Bound in the publisher's original vellum wrappers with the front cover and spine stamped in black and red. Unopened. Text is in French. Gallimard paperback books
1997rif. UENGOLI00acmfSimon & Schuster 1997. Very Good. English Todd. The Olives Table. Sampson Sally. NY: Simon & Schuster 1997. 367pp. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
