Warner

1842 · ref. 20362 — Boston: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter 1842. A later printing of this first American translation of the Godfrey the first appearing in 1841 and the expanded dictionary. Cloth generally sunned; small chip to the spine and a bit frayed at the head and foot; label somewhat rubbed; some occasional light foxing; a good copy. Large 8vo 9.63 x 6 inches original ribbed brown or perhaps purple cloth printed paper label on spine 135 1; xc pages. Printed music in the text. A work known perhaps for its superfluity of necessary detail. The appended Universal Dictionary of Musical Terms: Taken in Part from Dr. Weber's Vocabulary of Italian Words and Phrases but Chiefly Furnished from Other Sources and Adapted to the Condition and Wants of this Country by James F. Warner has a separate title page and includes a new preface dated April 1 1842 noting that the dictionary "has been enlarged however in the proportion of about three to one. . . . The additions made by the American editor are indicated by a star ." The dictionary also includes two additional appended pages not present in the 1841 edition. Early small neat ink ownership signature on the front free endpaper. J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, unknown