Author: Myles Birket Foster
Title: Anthems and Anthem Composers: An Essay Upon the Development of the Anthem
Description: London, Novello and Company, Limited , 1901. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this treatise on the anthem, illustrated with portraits of key composers. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With chapters on the origins of the anthem and earliest anthem writers, sixteenth-century composers, the Restoration, the Wesley family, and much more. Illustrated with sixteen portraits from various artists, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Written by Myles Birket Foster, an organist and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, not to be confused with his father also called Myles Birket Foster, a famous English watercolour painter and engraver in the Victorian period.  In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound, with scattered spotting to the pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Numerous Illustrators. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Anthems and Anthem Composers Myles Birket Foster Music Illustrated Myles Birket Foster Numerous Illustrators


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