Search Results: Music: early recordings from The Owl at the Bridge

London, for the editor [1825/26]. "Latin church music by Italian composers of the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries." Includes works by Palestrina, Carissimi, Pergolesi; scoring for full vocal and, in many cases, instrumental & organ parts. Novello's editorial and private publishing projects, of which this is an early example, were well regarded efforts leading to establishment of the important music publishing house Novello & Company. New Grove 13: 437-440. NUC 91: 452 records four copies (under Cambridge. University. Fitzwilliam Museum. Library). Hardcover; large folio-- five volumes in one, complete with preface & list of subscribers. Title-pages & music engraved. Bound in contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked, gilt leather spine; very good. Stock#OB558 extra-oversize.