Rossini Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres ... avec une Introduction de M. Méry

by Rossini, Marie Escudier, Léon Escudier

$50 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians · No longer available

First edition

Octavo. Mid-tan leather backed marbled boards, spine in gilt-ruled compartments with titling gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. half-title , 1f. title , xx, 338 pp. Foxed. Very Good. Between 1840 and 1856 the Escudier brothers Marie and Léon jointly wrote five books ... Their comprehensive Dictionnaire de musique ... filled a distinct need and most usefully complemented the first edition of Fétis’s Biographie universelle ...

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