Three Rondos for the Piano Forte or Harpsichord Composed and Humbly Dedicated to the Honourable Francis Hopkinson

by Music, William Brown

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Engraved title, letterpress 1p. List of Subscribers, 6 engraved sheets. 4to. Loose sheets, trimmed close at the gutter margin. Evans 20246; Sonneck, p. 361. Item #373365 By one of those strange coincidences which delight the historian and at the same time provide the essayist with convenient points of departure, the year 1787, which saw the writing of the Constitution of the United States, saw also the solid beginnings of music publishing in

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