BURGH (Allatson): - Anecdotes of Music, Historical and Biographical; In a Series of Letters from a Gentleman to His Daughter.

Lodon: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown..., 1814. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. Large 12mo, 178 x 104 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 446; [iv], 510 [511 - 512 adverts]; [iv], 456, including half-title in each volume, bound in later half calf, marbled boards; lacks labels, binding a bit worn, but a good set. Burgh's work was presumably intended to take the weight off the shoulders of Burney's history both physically and intellectually, and was designed for a young, specifically female, audience. In his preface he states, with what ground one does not know, that "As practical Musicians, the British Female Dilettanti are universally acknowledged...to have surpassed, in their exquisite execution upon keyed instruments, all their continental competition." The author was a not altogether universally popular Hampstead cleric, but in abbreviated form this work was translated into German and read [apparently] by Beethoven - probably because he gets a brief mention.

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