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Parke, W TMareMagnum
Musical Memoirs Vol. I-II
1830350pp, 333pp VG/none First (only) edition, complete in two volumes. Full title Musical Memoirs comprising An Account on the General State of Music in England, from the First Commemoration of Handel in 1784, to the Year 1830, Interspersed with Numerous Anecdotes, Musical, Histrionic, &c. Rebound in modern green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and new endpapers, just a faint damp stain on lower corner of the first sheets in vol.I and sporadic foxing, generally light (see photos), overall in VG conditions. Musical recollections (and much more) of William Thomas Parke, forty years principal oboist to the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, brother of the other notable oboist John Parke. A lot of trivia, gossip and jokes included nevertheless interesting in the information presented on music, opera and opera houses in London in that period.
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