Musical Prints 1568-1949
Storrs: William Benton Museum of Art, 2011. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 93 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. 64 illustrated entries with print medium in color and black and white. Bibliography and Index. More
Storrs: William Benton Museum of Art, 2011. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 93 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. 64 illustrated entries with print medium in color and black and white. Bibliography and Index. More
Paris: Jules Labitte, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. 422, 370 pages. 21.5 x 13 cm. It was this period in his life (1840's) Berlioz spent much of his time making music outside France. He struggled to make money from his concerts in Paris, and learning of the large sums made by..... More
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1896. Steinlen. First edition. Original Wraps. 260 pages. 18. 5 x 11.5. Cover illustration by Steinlen, host of black and white illustration hors texte by Steinlen. Music by Marcel Legay. Text browned. Modest extremity wear. More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Gibbings, Robert. Boards. 64 pages. 4to, 27 x 19 cm. Twenty wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Music drawn by Glayds Evans. The third book under Gibbings' direction of the Press; this one printed in red and black using Caslon Old Face. Limited edition..... More
London: James Cochrane and Co, 1831. Hardcover. 496 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Five signed etchings by Cruikshank. List of plates. Vol. 2 of Roscoe's Novelist's Library of a total of 19 volumes in the series. COHN 703. Fresh, bright copy, bookplate, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt. More
London: James Cochrane and Co, 1831. Hardcover. 456, 448 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Eight etchings and a portrait of another artist after Hogarth. List of illustrations in the second volume. Vols. 5 & 6 of Roscoe's Novelist's Library of a total of 19 volumes in the series. COHN 705..... More
London: John Murray, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. 336 pages. 16.5 x 11 cm. 12 etchings by Cruikshank, including frontispiece, all with tissue guards. COHN 231. "No list of plates. List of Subscribers and Patrons, a few of whom took 1000 copies, the Admiralty and Earl of Minto took 500 each..... More
London: James Cochrane and Co, 1832. Hardcover. 168, 243 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Four etchings by Cruikshank and a portrait of Goldsmith by Freeman. COHN 708. Another in the series, "Roscoe's Novelist's Library." Bookplate, clean copy. More
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Fifty-two comic designs of the the three Cruikshanks [Elder Isaac, Robert and George] colored by hand after the originals. Limited edition, copy 376 of 520 . Crisp, clean signed presentation copy in a florid..... More
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 187 of 520. Title page printed in red and black. Very crisp, clean copy both images and text. Bound by Birdsall -- raised bands, spines richly gilt in floral motifs. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 257 pages. 22 x 17.5 cm. First edition. Limited edition, copy 366 of 560 signed by Huxley. Spine sunned, edges of boards slightly faded. printed at the Florence Press with wide text margins. Interior clean. More
London: Bibliographical Society, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 188 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Sixty-two reproductions. Bibliography. Index. Bibliographical Society: for the year 1971. More
Vienna: Stähelin & Lauenstein, (1913). First edition thus. leather_bound. 372 pages. Folio, 15.5 x 11 cm. Limited edition, copy 220 of 400, the first and only copy of an important example of vernacular Austrian folk culture, inscribed and signed by Mautner on the front endpaper, dated Vienna, December 1913. Color..... More
London: Bibliographical Society, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pp. Twelve illustrations. Bibliography. List of Liturgical Music Incunabula. Index of Printers. Index of Places. More
London: Bibliograhical Society, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Twelve reproductions on seven plates. Chronological List. Oxford Bibliographical Society: for Year 1954. More
New York: House of Books, Ltd, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Approx. 30 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 12 of 250 signed by Nathan in black ink: No. Six of The Crown Octavos printed by the Harbor Press. Purports to be a musical narrative of a monk in..... More
New York: John F. Scovill, 1862. Hardcover. 208 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. One preliminary leaf, [9] - 208. Frontispiece, plates, hand colored botanical engraved plates. additional steel engraved and woodcut text illustrations. Contains music, fiction, poetry and religious content. Backstrip an early restoration, ornately decorated covers in gilt floral..... More
London: Bibliograhical Society, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 351 pages. 22 x 18 cm. Bibliography. More
New York: Walter & Barbara Schatzki, 1947. Reprint. Wraps. Four leaves. 34 x 25 cm. Illustrated in black and white with musical notations. Inside and free endpapers toned. Nicks to upper backstrip. More
New York: Macmillan, 1924. New and Revised edition. Hardcover. 538 pages. 25.5 x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 206 of 250 signed by Yeats. Pristine, unopened copy. Contents contain "Ideas Of Good And Evil, The Cutting Of An Agate, and Per Amica Silentta Lunae." Dedicated to Lennox Robinson, an Irish..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1924. New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. 474 pages. 25.5 x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 72 of 250 signed by Yeats. Pristine, unopened copy, frontispiece portrait of Yeats at a young age drawn by John Singer Sargent with seven additional illustrations in the text. Chapter on "Music..... More