Kritische Einleitung in die Geschichte und Lehrfaesse der alten und neuen Musik ... Nebst acht Kupfertabellen
Berlin: Gottlieb August Lange, 1759.
Small quarto. Marbled boards rebacked in quarter dark brown calf with mid-tan title label gilt to spine.
1f. (recto blank, verso frontispiece) 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 2ff. (dedication with printed date of 4 May 1759), 2ff. ("Vorbericht"), 1f. (contents), 246, [viii] (index) pp. + 8 pages of engraved music and illustrations of musical instruments . With occasional decorative woodcut head- and tailpieces.
The fine full-page half-length frontispiece portrait of Marpurg by Berol after Frederic Kauke, dated 1758, depicts the author seated at a desk with quill poised over an open book. With a finely engraved pictorial vignette by Glassbach to title.
Musicological annotations in pencil to many leaves, primarily to margins.
Binding slightly worn and rubbed. Light uniform browing. A very good wide-margined copy overall.
First Edition. Cortot p. 122. Hirsch I, 358. Gregory-Bartlett I, p. 168. RISM Écrits Imprimés p. 544.
Marpurg was a leading German writer on music history and theory whose works are still considered important to the understanding of 18th-century musical thought.
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