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Moscow: Muzgiz (State Music Publishers), 1938. Octavo. Full original publisher's light green cloth with blindstamped bust-length portrait of the composer to upper. 383, [i] pp. Illustrated. Binding slightly worn and rubbed; minor staining to lower; endpapers browned. Light uniform internal browning. The first volume of an edition of Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Jurgenson, his principal publisher.

Paris, 1831. 235 x 182 mm. On wove paper. Paganini was sent to prison in May of 1815 for eight days in connection with an affair he had with a young woman named Angelina Cavanna.

Neptune City: Paganiniana Publications, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 703 pp. With numerous plates reproducing original manuscripts, prints, drawings, documents, programs, etc.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 246 pp. With illustrative plates. In dustjacket.

Paris: C. Joubert [PN L. B. 1615], 1920. Large octavo. Original publisher's teal blue wrappers illustrated by P. Borie. 1f. (recto illustrated title by P. Borie, verso copyright statement), 35, [i] (blank) pp. Upper wrapper slightly faded with former owner's signature in blue crayon to upper margin; spine faded and with minor tears. Tear to lower outer margin of free front endpaper and title; small publisher's handstamp to lower margin of title; uneven upper edges occasionally uneven where leaves opened. Re-issue.

London: Cramer, Addison & Beale [PN 2552], 1839. Large folio. Full dark blue cloth with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 189, [i] (contents) pp. Engraved. With signature of musicologist and organist William A. Little to front pastedown. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; head and tail of spine frayed with some loss; endpapers worn and stained. Minor wear; light uniform browning; corners slightly creased; tear to pp. 97/98 repaired with archival tape. Palestine was first performed in London on 21 April 1812. "[Crotch] was an exceptional child prodigy and became one of the most distinguished English musicians of his day ... In London [he] became well known as a teacher, composer and scholar... In April 1812 came the performance of his oratorio Palestine, his most conspicuously successful work. It was repeated many times in London and the provinces, though Crotch never printed the score and charged 200 guineas for the loan of the instrumental parts and his own attendance as… Read More

London: Novello & Co, 1883. Oblong folio. Original dark red cloth-backed publisher's olive green illustrated boards printed in ivory and black, decorative endpapers. 1f. (recto half-title, verso full-page illustration), 1f. (recto title, verso full-page illustration), 1f. (recto preface by Marzials, verso contents), 9-51, [i] (full-page illustration) pp. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, bumped, and shaken. Slightly worn and foxed; small embossed stamp to lower outer corner of half-title. Marzials was a British composer, singer, and poet, described in 1894 as a "poet and eccentric" by parodist Max Beerbohm ... His poetry is considered an example of 19th-century aestheticism. The present work couples Marzials's music with the poetry of Christina Rossetti and the illustrations of the noted English artist and book illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915), "considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation ... and, along with Randolph Caldecott… Read More

London: Constable, 1962. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. 216 pp. With 295 illustrations, including 8 full color plates, of rare engravings, prints, playbills, lithographs, and photographs from the author's collection.

Paris: Choudens [PN A. C. 10092], 1895. Large octavo. Half grey cloth with marbled boards, brown morocco title label gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents), 2-281, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast list includes Soulacroix, Paul Fugere, Dekernel, Lucien Noel, Landrin, Dacheux, J. Aubecq, Bernaert, Sully, and Lebey. Performance markings to pp. 202-05. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Uniform light browing; minor soiling to title; portion lacking to outer edge of upper margin of pp. 249/50 with tape reinforcement, not affecting music. First Edition. First performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Gaité on 23 November 1895, under the direction of Debruyére.

Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1979. Large octavo. Original publisher's boards. xiv, 619 pp. With illustrative plates. In dustjacket. Endpapers, edges, and dustjacket slightly worn. Occasional light foxing.

Oberlin: American Musicological Society, 1940. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 132 pp. Slightly worn.

Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1975. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 159 pp.

Paris: Éditions Francis Salabert [PN SEMFA 1122], 1930. Folio. Original publisher's dark ivory decorative wrappers printed in red and dark blue with photographic reproduction of Maurice Chevalier to upper. 1f. (title), 1f. (contents), [i] (publisher's advertisement), 6-40 pp., 4ff. (publisher's advertisements). Wrappers worn and partially detached. Musicseller's handstamp to title.

London, 1740. Unbound. Very Good. 1 leaf, with a large elaborate vignette to head illustrating the song with music and text below set for voice and figured bass with a separate part for flute. Ca. 326 x 200 mm. (12.75" x 7.85") [plate mark]. Slightly worn; minor browning to edges; inner edge frayed; small stains. From the second edition of Bickham's monumental work, first published in 1737-1739. BUC p. 107. RISM BII p. 245. "[Bickham ?1706-1771] was principally famous in music circles for his two illustrated folio volumes The Musical Entertainer, first issued in fortnightly parts, each containing four plates, from January 1737 to December 1739. The 200 plates are songs, headed and surrounded with pictorial embellishments illustrative of the song ..., and engraved in the style of and even copied directly from Gravelot and Watteau. This work was the first of its kind to be published in England and quickly produced imitators such as Lampe's British Melody, engraved by Benjamin Cole." Frank Kidson et… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 299 pp.

Berlin: Bote & Bock [ PN B & B 15516 (531)], 1970. Folio. Original publisher's light gray printed wrappers. 1f. (recto title, verso copyright statement), 1f. (recto cast list and orchestration, verso contents), 230 pp. Text in German and French. Second version. La vie parisienne, to a libretto by Meilhac and Halévy, was first performed in Paris at the Palais-Royal on October 31, 1866. "[Offenbach] was, with Johann Strauss (ii), one of the two composers of outstanding significance in popular music of the 19th century and the composer of some of the most exhilaratingly gay and tuneful music ever written... Moreover, it was through the success of Offenbach's works abroad that operetta became an established international genre, producing outstanding national exponents in Strauss, Sullivan and Lehár and evolving into the 20th-century musical." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online.

London: Printed for and Sold by I: Walsh Servant to his Majesty at the Harp and Hoboy in Catherine Street in the Strand. and Ioseph Hare at the Viol and Hoboy in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange, 1730. Folio. Modern black morocco-backed marbled boards with black title label gilt to upper and titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto "A Table of the Songs," with publisher's catalogue to foot; verso blank), 99, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout. A selection from the opera, including solo arias and a vocal quartet. Named singers includ Strada, Bernacchi, Merighi, and Bertolli. Slightly worn; title browned and with small stains and creases to outer and lower margins. First Edition, first issue. Smith p. 46, no. 1. Hoboken 5, 59. BUC p. 429. RISM H239 and HH239 First performed in London at the King's Theatre on 24 February 1730, with text by S. Stampiglia (first set to music by Manzo in 1699), then modified for Venice and set by Caldara in 1708. Loewenberg col. 165.… Read More

London: J. & W. Chester [PN J.W.C. 289], 1966. Paperback. Very Good. Large octavo. Wrappers. 1f. (title), 48 pp. From the collection of noted musicologist Stanley Boorman, with his signature to title. Wrappers slightly browned.

Paris: A. Durand & Fils [PN D. & F. 6094], 1902. Large octavo. Original publisher's decorative ivory wrappers. 1f. (recto blank, verso frontispiece), 1f. (recto decorative title, verso note), 1f. (recto notes on first performance and cast list, verso blank), 1f. (recto contents, verso blank), 151, [i] (blank) pp. Together with a program for a 15 March 1903 performance of the work in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet. 10 ff. Wrappers somewhat soiled; spine worn and with small tears. First Edition. Ratner II, p. 398. First performed at the Théâtre des Arénes de Béziers in August 1902.

London: Monzani & Cimador, 1800. Folio. Pp. [27]-29, [i] (blank). "No. 22" in manuscript to page 1. Disbound; slightly browned and foxed; split at spine. Sarti was "a leading figure in late 18th-century opera... In 1782 Grand Duke Paul of Russia heard his Alessandro e Timoteo at Parma and suggested to Catherine II that Sarti might succeed Paisiello as director of the imperial chapel." David DiChiera, Marita P. McClymonds and Caryl Clark in Grove Music Online.