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Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condizione: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st edition] ; 301 pp. ; frontispiece plate, portraits, facsimiles (including music) ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 25-17032 ; LC: ML60 ; OCLC: 1970008 or OCLC: 59780161; red cloth with faux-vellum spine and gold lettering and designs ; no dustjacket ; "The work s dealt with are.linked together by the pathetic circumstance of having come into the world to be Music's stepchildren, ignored by the public at large, and scarcely likely to be made the subject of special study by the professional critic.This collection of desultory essays may, it is hoped, give the reader a taste for exploring the byways of musical history." ; Contents: An offshoot of the Beggar's opera [The dragon of Wantley]--"Brave Galuppi."--The philosopher, the actress, and the boy [Rousseau, Mme. Favart, Mozart]--"Tom Jones" on the French stage.--A misjudged composer [Niccolo Piccinni]--An error of Rossini's youth.--Cherubini in church.--Small Beethoven.--Three specimens of early Mendelssohn.--The musical diary of Liszt's travels.--Wagner's French songs.--A German precursor of Sullivan [Albert Lortzing]--A victim of his popularity [Alexander N. Serov]--The early Tchaikovsky symphonies.--Cesar Franck's weakness.--The tragedy of a comic opera [Le roi malgré lui]--Imitation Handel [Samuel Butler]--The father of Spanish music-drama [Felipe Pedrell]--Max Reger at the organ.--The chamber music of Albert Roussel.--Elgar's most neglected masterpiece.--Bela Bartok as quartet writer.--A musical novel by Frederick Delius.--A late Strauss opera.--The carol revived. ; slight foxing, else VG. Book.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pea green embossed cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the spine and to the front cover, top edge gilt. 4to. 11½'' x 8¼''. Contains (xi)-blank, 16 pp followed by 136 plates, some on heavy extra stock colour paper, with over one hundred caricaturists being represented including Max Beerbohm, George Cruikshank, Edmund Dulac, William Hogarth, Edward Lear, Eric Ravilious, L. Rodo, William Heath Robinson, Thomas Rowlandson, Spy, John Tenniel, Loren Stout, Henry Tonks, and Gluyas Williams. One plate slightly proud and in very near Fine condition, supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DRAWING & CRAFTSMANSHIP.