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The Musical Entertainer. Complete 2-volume set, with a total of 200 fine engraved illustrative plates

The Musical Entertainer. Complete 2-volume set, with a total of 200 fine engraved illustrative plates by BICKHAM, Jr., George ?1706-1771

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Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Title
The Musical Entertainer. Complete 2-volume set, with a total of 200 fine engraved illustrative plates
Creator
BICKHAM, Jr., George ?1706-1771
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
London: Printed for & Sold by Geo: Bickham, at his House ye Corner of Bedford-Bury, New-Street, Covent Garden; Printed for C. Corbett at Addison's head, Fleet Street, 1737. 2 volumes. Tall folio. Half late 19th century mid-tan pebbled leather with marbled boards, mid-tan calf title label gilt to upper of each volume, spine in compartments with titling gilt. Letterpress subscribers list, otherwise engraved throughout. Two volumes, each with 100 finely engraved plates printed on rectos only, with large, attractive vignettes to upper portion of each leaf engraved by Bickham, some after Gravelot and Watteau. The music and text of each song appears below the illustration, with most pieces set for voice and figured bass with a separate part for flute. Vol. I 1f. (recto title within highly decorative border by Bickham, verso blank), 1f. ("A Table of the Songs in the Musical Entertainer Vol. 1st"), [4] ("A List of those Encouragers of this Work, who have sent in their Names"), 1f. (smaller-format engraving tipped-in) +100ff. engraved plates. The fine title-page includes allegorical figures holding stringed and wind instruments, putti with music, a gentleman's portrait [?Bickham) propped on an easel, etc. Named composers include Boyce, Carey, Corelli, Digard, M.C. Festing, Gladwin, Greene, Gunn, Handel, Holcombe, Howard, Hudson, Lampe, Leveridge, Monro, Antony Neale, Popely, Henry Purcell, Putti, Stanley, Vanbrugh, Vincent and C. Young. Named authors of song texts include Congreve, A. Hill, Thos. Hundeshagen, Jersey, John Mottley, "A Lady," Lockman, Philip, and Smith. Named singers include Mr. Beard, Senesino, and Isabella Young. Vol. II 1f. (recto blank, verso fine full-page frontispiece of Calliope), 1f. ("A Table of the Songs in the Musical Entertainer Vol. 2d", verso blank), + 100ff. engraved plates. Named composers include Arne, Bliondoracellini, Carey, Festing, Wm. Fischer, Gladwin, Gouge, Handel, Howard, King, J.F. Lampe, Leveridge, Pepusch, Philips, Popely, John C. Smith, Vincent, and Wichello. Named authors of song texts include Carey, Lockman, Abram. Langford, Leveridge, Monro, Thos. Philips, and Prier. Named singers include Mrs. Clive, Mr. Leguar, Leveridge, Capn. Morrice, and Mrs. Vincent. Provenance Vol. I with early bookplate of Susanna Harland to front pastedown; modern decorative woodcut bookplate of Kate Lee signed with initials "SI" with contemporary signature ("S. Gage") to blank upper margin of flyleaf; old bookseller descriptions and pencilled annotations to front pastedown. Contemporary presentation inscription to head of title to Vol. I; two contemporary manuscript annotations correcting textual attributions. Bindings worn, rubbed and bumped; joints partially split; edges slightly browned with occasional very small chips. Minor internal wear and browning; occasional small stains; Vol. I with minor repair to blank margin of plate 54; plates 39, 70, 85, and 86 very slightly trimmed with upper and lower margins reinforced, minor repair to lower margin of plate 70; manuscript annotations faded.; Vol. II with minor repair to blank margin of plate 1; lower blank outer corner of plate 92 repaired. Cohen-De Ricci, 145-46. Lipperheide, 560. BUC, p. 107 (conforming to the first entry except for the fact that the figures in the bass of bars 1-4 of folio 88 in Vol. I in addition to the figures in bars 1-2). RISM BII, p. 245. "[Bickham] was principally famous in music circles for his two illustrated folio volumes The Musical Entertainer, first issued in fortnightly parts, each containing four plates, from January 1737 to December 1739. The 200 plates are songs, headed and surrounded with pictorial embellishments illustrative of the song ..., and engraved in the style of and even copied directly from Gravelot and Watteau. This work was the first of its kind to be published in England and quickly produced imitators such as Lampe's British Melody, engraved by Benjamin Cole. A second edition, corrected by Lampe, was also issued in parts (1740-41), and a third, printed from the original plates, appeared in 1765, issued by John Ryall. Other musical works engraved by Bickham include Songs in the Opera of Flora (1737), An Easy Introduction to Dancing (1738) and the frontispiece for Simpson's The Delightful Pocket Companion for the German Flute (c1745)." Frank Kidson, et al. in Grove Music Online The Musical Entertainer is considered to be one of the finest 18th century illustrated books. Complete copies of this monumental work, particularly with the subscribers list, are quite rare.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Rowling, J. K.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Rowling, J. K.
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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Fine
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London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition. Fine/Fine. First printing (numberline to 1), first state with "Joanne Rowling" on the copyright page and page 7 with the misaligned text. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. Pages very faintly toned at margins, still a very appealing copy. The exciting third book in the series, where the action really starts to heat up and we first become acquainted with Sirius Black. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Errington A7(aaa). Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Launcelot and Guenevere: A Poem in Dramas

Launcelot and Guenevere: A Poem in Dramas by Hovey, Richard

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Launcelot and Guenevere: A Poem in Dramas
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Hovey, Richard
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Very good
Description
New York: United States Book Company, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 263pp. MAroon cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on upper board. Top edge gilt. Corners and hinges worn,cloth lightly soiled, else a very good copy. BAL 9375. .
The Atlantic Wall (2): Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway (Osprey Fortress, No. 89)

The Atlantic Wall (2): Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway (Osprey Fortress, No. 89) by Zaloga, Steven J

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The Atlantic Wall (2): Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway (Osprey Fortress, No. 89)
Author
Zaloga, Steven J
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9781846033933
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Very Good
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New York: Osprey, 2009. 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 7x0x9. Hook, Adam. First printing. Covers toned. 2009 Soft Cover. 64 pp. Germany's Atlantic Wall was the most ambitious military fortification program of World War II. Following its conquest of Western Europe, Germany had to defend some 5,000 kilometers of Atlantic coastline from the Spanish border to the Arctic Circle. The United States' entry into the war and the inevitability of an Anglo-American landing in Western Europe resulted in the fortification of this coastline along its entire length. Focusing on the northern Atlantic Wall in the Low Countries and Scandinavia, this title addresses the special defensive features and unique aspects of fortification in these countries, such as the early focus on fortifying Norway, due to early British commando raids; the greater use of turreted naval guns; and the establishment of first-line Flak defenses in the Low Countries to counter the Allied strategic bombing campaign.

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