olin Coleman Music


Id 5022
Category antiquarian music
Author / Composer FITZWILLIAM
Title The Fitzwilliam Music, being A Collection of Sacred Pieces, Selected from Manuscripts of Italian Composers in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Now for the first time published by permission of the University of Cambridge by Vincent Novello. Vol.I [-5. Scores].
Place London
Publisher Published for the Editor
Publication Date [1825]
ISBN / Plate No.
Series
Size Five volumes. Large folio. vii, [i], 61; [i], 68; [i], 65; [i], 67; [i], 67, 3 (list of subscribers) pp.
Description Original publisher's printed boards (edges a little worn and corners bumped) with cloth tape backstrips. Ex library with discreet labels and stamps; occasional foxing. Superb internally. Engraved.
Reference First edition. Hirsch IV.967. See Philip Olleson & Fiona Palmer, ‘Publishing Music from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: the work of Vincent Novello and Samuel Wesley in the 1820s’, in Journal of the Royal Musical Association, vol.130/1 (January, 2005), pp.38-73.
Price £300.00

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