Beiträge zur Geschichte des Oratoriums
Berlin: R. Oppenheim, 1872. Hardcover.
Half mid-brown textured cloth with marbled boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso copyright), [v]-vi (foreword dated November 1870), [vii]-viii (contents), 503, [i] (publisher's advertisement), 1f. (recto "Notenbeilagen," verso blank), 48 pp. music. With musical examples throughout. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; some loss to spine; hinges split; front endpapers stained. Uniform light browning; "Clifton Joseph Furness 1936" to upper outer corner of front free endpaper, with annotations in red and blue pencil, with several leaves heavily marked in the same; small tears to blank upper margin of final leaves. From the collection of the American organist and scholar Professor William A. Little, with his signature to front pastedown and, earlier, the Harvard Musical Association Library, with their small rectangular handstamp to title and p. 57. Furness (1898-1946) studied at Harvard and joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in 1929.
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