Burney Charles Poole Edmund (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. paperback, large 8vo, xxviii,245pp, illustrated, edges browned, text clean and sound, cover edges rubbed, light creasing on spine, Good condfition. ISBN: 0903873036.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Eulenburg Books, 1974. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xxix,245pp, illust. D/j slightly yellowed. A good copy. 0903873168/0.7uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This was originally a journal written, during a tour of these countries. Whilst collecting material for 'A General History Of Music'. Armed with letters of introduction he met countless prominent musicians, composers, artists and men of letters - including Balbastre, Voltaire, Rousseau, Padre Martini, Latilla, Barietti, Farinelli and Caffarelli, Guarducci and Nardini. Constantly attending concerts, visiting churches, museums, libraries and art galleries Burney observed and noted in illuminating detail everything that he saw and did, everyone he met and conversed with. He was thus able to provide and invaluable record of the state of music, and the arts generally, in France and Italy at that time. With illustrations & maps. / This is a cloth-bound 'reprinted' hardback with its slip-case in good condition-the slipcase is is a little rubbed. (245 pages & 29 pages of introduction & 15 pages of illustrations). Originally published 1770.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Thus. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to a red panel on the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dust wrapper is not called for, this copy is in encased in a robust, dusty tan paper covered slipcase. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Charles Burney FRS was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, of the explorer James Burney, and of Charles Burney, a classicist and book donor to the British Museum. This book being the Journal written by Charles Burney, Mus.D. during a tour through those countries undertaken to collect material for A General History of Music. Edited and introduced by H. Edmund Poole. Transcribed from the original manuscript in the British Museum. Ref FFF 4.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First FS Edition. VG : in very good condition with brown slipcase. 260mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). xxix, 245pp. B/w reproductions from contemporary sources.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No markings or inscriptions; a very clean, sound copy. Green cloth binding with red and gilt titles on the spine, in a very good slipcase. This copy includes a plate lossely inserted, showing "Charley Griffith playing the organ.in 1759. Printed from the original copper-plate by Iain Bain". One of twelve copies prepared by the Editor for those to whom he is especially indebted. Also inscribed by the editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase Very Good+. 1st. 245pp.; HB green w/red&gilt; bookplate,otherwise fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. Slipcase brwn.w/no title; slight rub&soil. "Being the Journal written by Charles Burney, Mus.D. during a Tour through those Countries undertaken to collect material for A General History of Music Transcribed from the Original Manuscript in the British Museum . and Edited with an Introduction by H. Edmund Poole" illus.