Author: Prize binding - C.Hubert H. Parry
Title: STUDIES OF GREAT COMPOSERS
Description: London, George Routledge and Sons Ltd. circa 1910 frontispiece of the portrait of Palestrina . 8vo red gilt leather with spine on 5 raised bands. Overall gilding to compartments and to bands with a gilt black spine label & Bradford Modern School gilt coat of arms to cover. Gilt double rules to edge of both covers. Dentelles gilt and reverses blind-tooled. [head of spine sl. chipped for 2 mm/edges rubbed] All edges marbled. Half-title to recto of Frontis. + titlepage with Press notices to verso + [2pp=Prefce] + Contents with blank verso. +376pp. Front pastedown with Bradford coat of arms prize label given to W.S.Allen in 1914. A neat copy starting with Palestrina including Handel, Bach, Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Wagner among a few more. Contents are clean, with no marks or damage to pages.

Keywords: music composers biographies


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