Author: TAYLOR (John):
Title: The Music Speech at the Public Commencement in Cambridge, July 6, MDCCXXX. To which is added, An Ode designed to have been set to Music on that Occasion.
Description: London: Printed by William Bowyer, Jun., Sometime Student of the same College; And sold by W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, R. Clements in Oxford, and the Booksellers olf London and Westminster. 1730 FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 195 x 115 mms., pp [5] 6 - 26 [27 advert, 28 blank], including half-title, recently recased and very closely trimmed at fore-edge in quarter morocco, red leather spine, marbled boards; and the book label of Richard Luckett on the front paste-down end-paper. Luckett (1945 - 2020) was formerly Pepys Librarian and University Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature at Cambridge. ESTC notes, "Bowyer's records are internally contradictory, but the most detailed entries indicate three printings (not two, as Foxon suggests) in close succession, of 1000, 2000, and 500 copies respectively. Signatures: [A]4 B-C4 D². Signatures from Maslen & Lancaster, and Foxon. Foxon T103. See also, Muriel Silbulrn, "Eighteenth Century Music Speeches,2 in Music & Letters Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct., 1920), pp. 348-352.

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