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Published by London Dobson, 1947
Seller: The Old Station Pottery and Bookshop, Wells-next-the-Sea, NORFO, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edn. Hardback in d/w. 251pp. Colour frontispiece + ! colour plate and 95b/w illustrations, many full page and some double page. Buff cloth boards with gilt vignette to front and gilt titles to spine. VG in VG slightly edgeworn d/w.A book which will be welcomed by all music-lovers because of its completely fresh approach to the life of the composer. A great deal of the material used will be new even to those who are familiar with the general outlines of Mendelssohn s life and work. The biographer, a Swiss antiquary, with access to the family papers, gives us a picture of the romantic marriage of Mendelssohn and his happy married life with the beautiful and talented Cécile Jean-renaud.