Author: BURNEY (Charles):
Title: The Present State of Music in France and Italy. Or, The Journal of a Tour through those Countries, undertaken to collect Materials for A General History of Music. The Second Edition, Corrected.
Description: London, Printed for T. Becket and Co..., 1773. 8vo, 214 x 128 mms., pp. viii, 409 [410 blank, 411 - 420 Index], contemporary calf, red leather label; joints slightly cracked, but good copy. Burney's Italian Tour (as he referred to it) was published on 3 May 1771 and was very favourably received by the journalists. Friends and acquaintances comment on the work in private letters: William Mason wrote to say that the work would "please generally in the form you have now put it," and Joseph Warton, in a letter to David Garrick, said that he had found the book "most entertaining."

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