Edited Edward Rimbault (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Reprint. Disbound. ; Approx. 4 1/2" wide by 7 1/4". From the original Black-letter Tract, printed (without date) in 1592. With half-title page (detached). ; xvi + 88 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 6 x 8 in. Pper boards. Frontis and plates with tissue guards. Condition is FAIR ; front cover detached, rear cover missing. Binding remains strong but frontis is detached. Text clean and bright. Child. Stax.

Contemporary Marbled Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1845 and 1843. [x], 58pp., 7pp.; 10pp, [iii], 19pp. This book contains two publications issued by Chappel Music for the Members of the Musical Antiquarian Society. The first of the two, issued in 1845, is Madrigals for Four Voices composed by John Bennet, scored from the original part books printed A.D. 1599 and edited by Edward J. Hopkins. The second, issued in 1843, is Fantasies in Three Parts Composed for Viols by Orlando Gibbons, scored from the copy printed in the Reign of James 1st and compared with the original M.S. by Edward F. Rimbault. Each piece of music is accpmpanied by details of the Council of the Musical Antiquarian Society; an introduction; and facsimiles of original title pages, etc. After the piece by Bennet is a Report of the Fourth A.G.M. of the Society, list of members, etc. The book is bound in contemporary marbled paper covered boards with a blue cloth spine and gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with expected shelf wear and a little damage and loss to the marbled paper around the corner tips. The spine ends are bumped with some damage and loss to the cloth. There is a split of about 1 1/2" to the cloth on the bottom of the front spine edge, the top 2" of the front spine edge and top 3/4" of the rear spine edge. The free endpapers are browned and there is foxing to the score by Bennet. This copy has come from the library of Arthur Henry Fox Strangways (1859-1948) the English musicologist, translator, editor and music critic, and his bookplate has been pasted onto the front fixed endpaper. PLEASE NOTE: This is a large and fairly heavy book and so a little extra may be needed for delivery outside the U.K.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus Nd. c. 1850's. All the pages have illustrated borders and the title page & text is printed in red and black. Contents generally clean. Bound in a contemporary full black limp leather, rubbed around edges and the spine has one very small split. generally a very good solid copy. An attractive piece of printing. Illustrated page borders. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Disbound. Reprint. Disbound pamphlet with only vestiges of original stitching present. 100 pages (33 of which are detailed notes). A Knight's Conjuring was originally published as "News from Hell, Brought by the Divell's Carrier), its title later revised (by whom) perhaps only after Rimbqaediting and this 1842) republication The Percy Society, which convened between the years 1840 till its demise in 1852, was a British literary collective whose aim was to publish rare songs, ballads, and poems. In contra-distinction to their inspirational namesakeThomas Percy (apart from excising obscenities), the society maintained a strong commitment to publishing original texts.…

Condition: Fine. Recently rebound in quarter scarlet leather, matching red sides, gilt title to the spine. Folio 16'' x 11½''. The original edition engraved on copper plates by William Hole, was published in 1611. It was again printed from the same plates in 1613, with the addition of a dedication. Subsequent impressions (always from the original plates) appeared in 1635, 1650, and 1659. The Parthenia claims the merit of having been the first musical work printed from copper plates; and example that was generally followed, in regard to instrumental music, both in this country and on the continent. Contains half-title, title-page, facsimile page of the original from 1611, illustrated title-page, dedication, 3 page introduction with vignette above the first leaf, 50 pages of score. Just minor spotting to the introductory pages, otherwise in Fine condition, superb condition copy. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC. …