Music from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Novello and Company 1902. 8vo. vi, 210 pp. Full leather in blue clamshell box. All edges gilt, gilt lettering, rounded corners and a debossed border to boards. Light rubbing to extremities, a few marks to FFEP and title page, otherwise internally clean. Box has a number of tears. A smart edition of Handel's 1741 oratorio, Messiah, compiled from the… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber 1952. Large 8vo. 151, [8] pp. Camel cloth in illustrated dust jacket (not price clipped). Small dent to head of spine and a two small marks to boards, otherwise clean and presentable. Jacket has a few tears to spine ends and front panel. Internally clean and presentable, with many full-page illustrations. Tells the story of the… Read more about this item

London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd. 1932. Small 8vo.Prize Binding. xx, 217 pp. Half morocco over cloth boards with gilt crest of Queenswood School, Herts. to front board; gilt lettering and devices to spine; t.e.g. Minimal wear and rubbing to extremities and boards. School prize bookplate. Internally clean. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1932.

London: Printed for J. Roberts; and sold by J. Brotherton [etc.] 1723 - 1738. 12mo. 3 volumes. First two volumes published in 1723, with the third volume being the second edition of 1738. x, 288; xv, 266; xvii, 264 pp. Illustrated with numerous copper plates. Red full straight-grained morocco with gilt decoration to boards and gilt lettering and devices to… Read more about this item

Budapest: Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1959. FolioFacsimile. Copy no. 155. Unpaginated. Cloth spine over card boards in limp card slipcase. Some rubbing to extremities and some sections a little loose. Internally clean. This facsimile published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Haydn's death. With a foreword by Laszlo Somfai in both English and German. . Very… Read more about this item

Adliswil-Zurich: Edition Eulenburg GMBH 1974. Oblong 4to.Facsimile. [iv], 102, 36 pp. Patterned boards with cloth spine in card slipcase. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1974.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press 2011. Large 8vo. xxxiv, 529 pp. Light brown hardback. Illustrated dust jacket. Clean boards. Light bumping to spine ends and extremities. Small indent to front board. Minimal rubbing to edges of jacket and mark of previous price sticker to rear panel. Crease mark to rear endpaper. Includes CD to rear. Internally clean and bright. . Very… Read more about this item

Munich: G. Henle Verlag 1977. Tall 4to.Facsimile. Unpaginated. Marbled boards. Slipcase. Damage to head of spine and a bit of loss and creasing to tail of spine. Slipcase has a small flap coming off at tail of spine. Otherwise as new. Laid paper. Internally fresh. Beethoven's final violin sonata. Facsimile in true size of the original autograph by Beethoven, preserved… Read more about this item

Budapest: Editio Musica 1972. Oblong 4to.Facsimile. Unpaginated. Small dent to head of spine end, light rubbing to surface of boards. Facsimile in true size of the original manuscript of Symphony No. 7 from the National Szechenyi Library in Budapest, with commentaries by Laszlo Somfai. "Le Midi" is the middle piece of Hadyn's famous "Tageszeiten" symphony triptych ("Le Matin", "Le Midi",… Read more about this item

Munich: G. Henle Verlag 1970. Small Oblong 4to.Facsimile. Unpaginated, around 32 pp. Hardback with black and gold title label to front board. Small tear to head of spine end, light rubbing to tail of spine end and bottom right corner. A few spots where the title label has rubbed and a scratch at bottom of title label. Bright and clean… Read more about this item

Leeds: Whitehead & Miller 1954. 16mo. 95, 41 pp. Papercover and card cover. Creased spine to Letterpress volume. Both internally clean. Ink writing to back board. Inscription of previous owner to front free endpapers, dated 1955. . Very Good. Paper Covers. 1954.

Washington: Library of Congress 1979. Oblong 4to.Facsimile. 106 pp. Hardback with decorative gilt tooled emblem and signature of Brahms to boards, gilt ruling and gilt lettering, marbled boards. Dent to head of spine end of book, small closed tears to top right and bottom left corner of jacket, small signs of wear to spine ends of jacket. Internally as new.… Read more about this item

Geneva: Editions Minkoff 1977. 4to.Facsimile. 121 pp. Pastel green paper boards with decorative title. Small tear to head of spine end, light wear to spine ends and top right corner. 37 of 100 of the deluxe edition on Johannot paper, embossed with a water mark stamp. Bright and clean internally. Includes an introduction by Francois Lesure in French. An attractive… Read more about this item

London: Secker and Warburg 1992. Large 4to. Unpaginated. Spiral bound with aluminium boards with a cut out design to rear board and lettering stamped to front board. Illustrated with black and white photography throughout. Includes original CD and comic. Small scratches to the metal covers. Illustrated foil cover has been cut open at the top. Number stamped at the base… Read more about this item

Mainz / London: B. Schott's Sohne / Boosey & Hawkes Ltd. N. d.. 4to.Facsimile. [ii], xxiv, 575 [571] pp. Cloth with stamped lettering to board and spine. Light rubbing to boards and spine, with very light spotting to edges. Ink inscription to ffep., otherwise internally clean. Opus 80 'study score'. . Near Fine. Cloth.

New York: Oxford University Press 1968. Oblong 4to.Facsimile. [7] pp + facsimile. Cloth with gilt lettering in slipcase. Some wear and fading to slipcase extremities. Bumping to boards and spine. Internally clean. Facsimile of the original manuscript owned by the National Orchestral Association, New York. Introduction by Sydney Beck. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1968.

Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag fur Musik Leipzig 1976. Oblong 4to.Facsimile. 14 pp. + facsimile. German and English language. Hardcover boards with marbled pattern. Minor wear to book extremities. Internally clean. Facsimile of Beethoven's manuscript of the opera 'Fidelio'. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1976.

London and Sydney: Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh N. D.. 4to.Illustrated. Unpaginated. Illustrated boards and cloth spine. Some rubbing and minor wear to boards, rubbing to spine and wear to corners. Binding is a little loose at points. Light foxing scattered throughout. Ink inscription to ffep. dated Christmas 1889. Colour plates, including frontis. and black and white illustrations. A series… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009. 8vo. xvi, 317 pp. Laminated paperback; light scratches to surface and very small scuffs to extremities, otherwise clean. Internally clean and bright. Includes 23 illustrations. An essential interdisciplinary work on Stuart masques. . Near Fine. Softcover. 2009.

Mannheim: K. Ferd. Heckel c. 1855. 16mo. 480 pp. Full brown morocco with raised bands, gilt lettering and borders to spine; all edges gilt. Rubbing around board edges and a few light marks to boards. Slight offsetting but generally internally clean. An odd volume of musical scores in miniature for nos. 72-83of Austrian Classical composer Hadyn's string quartets. . Very… Read more about this item