Briefe über Musik an eine Freundin ... Dritte Auflage
Berlin: B. Behr's Buchhandlung (E. Bock), 1879.
Small quarto. Highly decorative royal blue cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine, ivory doublures, all edges gilt. 1f. (recto title, verso quotation and copyright), [v]-vi (author's note), 189, [i] (printer's note), 1f. (recto publisher's advertisement, verso blank). With manuscript quotation from Goethe in a contemporary hand to recto of preliminary leaf signed and dated Berlin, September 15, 1880. Small binder's label to lower inner corner of rear pastedown: "J.R. Herzog Buchbinderei Leipzig." The author was a pupil of both Schumann and Mendelssohn. An attractive example of this prominent Leipzig bookbinder's work.
Item #34891
Price: $40.00 other currencies