Ed Henry Ramsden Bramley (4 results)

Condition: Good. English. From the Library of John Russell Taylor. The Brothers Daziel (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Complete But performance Marke. Early Edition Perhaps First. 46pp complete, but marked up for performance on a few pages,though no marks on the music itself 20 carols, Size: Crown. Just the Music ed by John Stainer (illustrator). Antiquarian.

Full dark green cloth with titling gilt to upper within decorative device, decorative black-stamped borders, yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. 1f. (recto title, verso printer's note), 180, [181]-184 (Index) pp. + 1f. (recto publisher's advertisement, verso publisher's device) With music and words to 70 carols. Binding slightly worn and spotted. The present work contains a number of popular carols, including The First Nowell; God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; and The Holly and the Ivy. Stainer and Bramley first published their collection of carols in the 1860s, which proved highly influential in reviving interest in the area. "Today Stainer is venerated less as a composer than as an educator and a pioneer of English musicology. His edition of Early Bodleian Music, completed shortly before his death, was the first serious effort by an English scholar to explore music before Palestrina and Tallis. Also of value is his edition, with the Rev. H.R. Bramley, of Christmas carols, which is credited by Keyte and Parrott with the first presentation of carols in a 'respectable' form which made them 'fit for inclusion in the services of cathedrals, which had stood out longest against their introduction'." Nicholas Temperley in Grove Music Online.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No date (1871) 70 pages of christmas carol music with lyrics. Page 68 coming loose at tail of spine. Pages are good condition, clean. TItle page and page opposite lightly yellowed. All gilt edges. Black endpapers. Green cloth with gile illustration and title with black decorative border on upper cover. Beveled edges. Head/tail of spine, edges and corners lighly worn. Handsome little book. VG. Book.…