Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
TRANSLATION OF GOETHE'S WILHELM MEISTER; containing Meister's
Apprenticeship and Meister's Travels. Second Edition, revised. Three
Volumes. Small 8vo., cloth, 18s.
London: CHAPMAN and HALL, 186. Strand.
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MEMOIRS OF MUSICK. By the Hon. ROGER NORTH, Attorney-General to James I.
Now first printed from the original MS. and edited, with copious Notes,
by EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, LL.D., F.S.A., &c. &c. Quarto; with a Portrait;
handsomely printed in 4to.; half-bound in morocco, 15s.
This interesting MS., so frequently alluded to by Dr. Burney in the
course of his "History of Music," has been kindly placed at the disposal
of the Council of the Musical Antiquarian Society, by George Townshend
Smith, Esq., Organist of Hereford Cathedral. But the Council, not
feeling authorised to commence a series of literary publications, yet
impressed with the value of the work, have suggested its independent
publication to their Secretary, Dr. Rimbault, under whose editorial care
it accordingly appears.
It abounds with interesting Musical Anecdotes; the Greek Fables
respecting the origin of Music; the rise and progress of Musical
Instruments; the early Musical Drama; the origin of our present
fashionable Concerts; the first performance of the Beggar's Opera, &c.
A limited number have been printed, few copies remain for sale: unsold
copies will shortly be raised in price to 1l. 11s. 6d.
Now ready, Part XII., completing the Work, containing Fifteen Plates and
Letter-press, price 7s. 6d. (folio, 12s., India paper, 20s., in a few
days), royal 8vo.
THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES of ENGLAND: a Series of Engravings on Wood, with
Descriptive Notices. By the Rev. CHARLES BOUTELL, M.A., Rector of
Downham Market, Norfolk.
The volume, containing 149 Plates, will be ready on the 11th inst.
Price, royal 8vo., cloth 1l. 8s. (The folio edition, cloth, 2l. 5s.,
India paper, 4l. 4s., in a few days.) Subscribers are requested to
complete their sets at once, as the numbers will shortly be raised in
price.
Also, by the same Author, royal 8vo. 15s.; large paper, 21s.
MONUMENTAL BRASSES and SLABS: an Historical and Descriptive Notice of
the Incised Monumental Memorials of the Middle Ages. With upwards of 200
Engravings.
"A handsome large octavo volume, abundantly supplied with
well-engraved woodcuts and lithographic plates; a sort of
Encyclopaedia for ready reference.... The whole work has a look of
painstaking completeness highly commendable."--_Athenaeum._
"One of the most beautifully got up and interesting volumes we have
seen for a long time. It gives in the compass of one volume an
account of the History of those beautiful monuments of former
days.... The illustrations are extremely well chosen."--_English
Churchman._
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