Order Nr. 44884 CATALOGUE OF PRINTED MUSIC PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1487 AND 1800 NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. William Barclay Squire.
CATALOGUE OF PRINTED MUSIC PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1487 AND 1800 NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
CATALOGUE OF PRINTED MUSIC PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1487 AND 1800 NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
CATALOGUE OF PRINTED MUSIC PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1487 AND 1800 NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

CATALOGUE OF PRINTED MUSIC PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1487 AND 1800 NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

(Hirsch, Paul).
  • London: The Trustees of the British Museum (by William Clowes & Sons, Ltd.), 1912.
  • 8vo
  • cloth boards, gilt on spine
  • iv, 775; [ii], 720 pages + 34 page supplement
  • ISBN: none

Price: $100.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 44884

The very scarce first edition, first printing. Cloth chipped at spine extremities. Title-page of vol. II partially loosened. A very good set.

With a preface by G. K. Fortescue from the British Museum. The dates covered in the catalogue (1487 - 1800) are those generally accepted as marking the division between the earlier and the modern schools of music. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.