Fanny Morris Smith Editor (6 results)

Paper Bound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with Photos and Musical Score (illustrator). No Edition Noted. Large grey covers. Cover has two lyre designs in the upper portion in blue, drawing of Apollo bust superimpossed over another lyre in blue surrounded by red wreaths. Main title print in red and sub-title in blue. Broken set. This is Part VIII of 25 part series. Published two each month. Each part contains three art works, one in color, on simulated engraving and one full page photo. Also text and Music. In this part : the color piece is "Emma Eames Story as La Contessa", attatched to mat board. The Pseudo-engraving is "La Danse du Sabre" pressed on thicker paper resulting in a rimmed edge. The full page photo is Le Menuet. Articles are: The Evolution of the Orchestra, Great Violinists, and The Influence of Louis Spohr. Music scores in this Part are : "The Brook" - Christopher Willibald Gluck, "Fugue" - J.S. Bach, "Harmonic Scheme" - Boekelman, Article including work of J.S. Bach, Praeludium - J.S. Bach, "Gavotte" - J.S Bach. Cover is tender with small breaks along the edges. Un-paginated. We have 7 sections remaining of the 25. Will be glad to quote one price for all.

Paper Bound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with Photos and Musical Score (illustrator). No Edition Noted. Large grey covers. Cover has two lyre designs in the upper portion in blue, drawing of Apollo bust superimpossed over another lyre in blue surrounded by red wreaths. Main title print in red and sub-title in blue. Broken set. This is Part X of 25 part series. Published two each month. Each part contains three art works, one in color, on simulated engraving and one full page photo. Also text and Music. In this part : the color piece is "Rose Caron as Desdemona", attatched to mat board. The Pseudo-engraving is "Psalm 140.9" pressed on thicker paper resulting in a rimmed edge. The full page photo is "The Guitar Player". Articles are: The Charm of Wagner's Roles, The Evolution of the Dance. Music scores in this Part are : "Paraphrase Sur Mandolinita", "Once There Was a King in Thule" - Charles Francois Gounod, Article "How to Simulate Thought and Imagination", "Idylle" - Henri Ravina. Covers are tender with breaks along the spine. Un-paginated. We have7 sections remaining of the 25. Will be glad to quote one price for all.

Paper Bound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with Photos and Musical Score (illustrator). No Edition Noted. Large grey covers. Cover has two lyre designs in the upper portion in blue, drawing of Apollo bust superimpossed over another lyre in blue surrounded by red wreaths. Main title print in red and sub-title in blue. Broken set. This is Part IX of 25 part series. Published two each month. Each part contains three art works, one in color, on simulated engraving and one full page photo. Also text and Music. In this part : the color piece is "A Child's Choir", attatched to mat board. The Pseudo-engraving is "The Jester" pressed on thicker paper resulting in a rimmed edge. The full page photo is Interior of Royal Vienna Opera-House. Articles are: The Influence of Louise Spohr, The Evolution of the Horn, Rubinstein's Fate and Future, Mascagni and Leoncavallo, and The Abiding Charm of Wagner's Roles. Music scores in this Part are : "Polonaise" - Bach, "Menuet" - Bach. Article "The Teaching of Rafael Joseffy", "The Lotos Flower" - Schumann, "Melody" - Frederich Kiel, and "Paraphrase Sur Mandolinata" - E. Paladilhr. Covers are tender with breaks along the spine. Un-paginated. We have 7 sections remaining of the 25. Will be glad to quote one price for all.

Paper Bound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with Photos and Musical Score (illustrator). No Edition Noted. Large grey covers. Cover has two lyre designs in the upper portion in blue, drawing of Apollo bust superimpossed over another lyre in blue surrounded by red wreaths. Main title print in red and sub-title in blue. Broken set. This is PartV I of 25 part series. Published two each month. Each part contains three art works, one in color, on simulated engraving and one full page photo. Also text and Music. In this part : the color piece is "Edouard de Reszke as Mephistopheles", attatched to mat board. The Pseudo-engraving is "The Dancing Lesson" pressed on thicker paper resulting in a rimmed edge. The full page photo is Pol Plancon as St. Bris. Articles are: Evolution of the Orchestra, The Music of Donizetti and Bellini, and Forerunners of the Modern Wind Orchestra. Music scores in this Part are : "Vogel Als Prophet"- Schumann, Article including "Passecaille" - G.F. Handel, "Good Night, Good Night, My Dearest" - J.F.F.E. Halevy, "Air From William Tell" - G. Rossini, "Hunting Song" - F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Cover is tender with breaks along the spine. Un-paginated. We have 7 sections remaining of the 25. Will be glad to quote one price for all.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair hardcover. No DJ. Music scores have very minor pencil marking. Some pages are loose from binding but present. Some with edge wear/tears. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked and binding loosening.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

First Edition. Two weighty volumes. Large 4to, pp. 200, 300. Titles in red and black, two uncolored portrait frontispieces, thirty-seven plates (twenty-five mounted and colored, four uncolored but mounted on india paper) and numerous illustrations and decorations, some full-page. (One plate, Angel With a Viola, missing from Vol I, opp. p. 96.) Vol. I is the text, Vol. II contains the music. AEG. Leather. Covers little soiled and curled, o/w VG. The present work provides a valuable contemporary account of a number of the great composers, with a large number of plates and illustrations, many taken from contemporary photographs. The plates are produced by three printing methods, half-tone, photogravure and colored typogravure.