1864 The Life and Labours of Vincent Novello

Description

Decorative Binding, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition of this scarce volume. A lovely example. 

In the original decorative cloth binding. With the very scarce original glassine.

Undated, dated from an identical copy held at the Hathi Trust. 

With a tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece. Collated, complete. 

Offering an intimate portrait of English musician and music publisher, Vincent Novello, who is widely regarded for bringing to England many works now considered standards. A regular host of musical evenings, many celebrated figures in the worlds of art and letters were constant frequenters of his house in Oxford Street, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Keats, Leigh Hunt, Shelley, Hazlitt. 

Mary Cowden Clarke, his daughter, was an English author and a notable compiler of a concordance to Shakespeare. Here she speaks of her father's upbringing, acquaintances, musical gifts, education, and productions.