A Musical Dictionary Being A Collection Of Terms And Characters As Well Ancient As Modern

by Sebastien De Brossard James Grassineau

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: printed by C. Jephson for J. Wilcox, at Virgil’s-Head, opposite the New Church in the Strand, 1740. First edition of the first dictionary of music in English, 8vo, pp. 2 , xii, 347, 1 ; 4 folding plates, printed music notation in the text; full contemporary sheep nicely rebacked to match; a very good, sound copy. In this issue, the first word of the title is over the d of dictionary , and the J in the imprint is above the rc of Church in

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