Music

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We stock a range of antiquarian music, books on music, manuscripts and autographs, with an emphasis on early printed editions and manuscript scores of important composers.

Recent catalogues have included one of a very few surviving lifetime manuscripts of Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas; a remarkable collection of vocal and instrumental music from the library of the duchesse de Berry; and inscribed first editions of works by Berg, Janacek, Poulenc, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schumann, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams.
  1. [GEORGE V.]

    The Form and Order of the Service that...

    London, Novello & Company, 1911.

    A handsome copy of the Coronation service,...

    £450

  2. [GOETHE.] 

    REICHARDT, Johann Friedrich.  Goethe’s...

    Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1809–11]. 

    Very rare first complete edition of...

    £6500

  3. GOUNOD, Charles François.

    A volume of ten songs bound together, all...

    London, 1870–3.

    Ten of Gounod’s London-published songs,...

    £2000

  4. GRASSINEAU, James.

    A Musical Dictionary; being a Collection...

    … London: Printed for J. Wilcox … 1740.

    First edition, based largely on the Dictionnaire...

    £650

  5. GREENE, Maurice.

    Forty select Anthems in Score composed...

    London. J. Walsh, 1743.

    First edition. Greene was organist...

    £850

  6. HALÉVY, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie.

    Autograph musical quotation, signed.

    Paris, 15 May 1846.

    Fromental Halévy (1799–1862) showed...

    £750

  7. [HOARE, Prince.]

    Songs, Duets, and Chorus, in the Prize;...

    [London,] 1793.

    First edition, scarce, of the libretto...

    £350

  8. HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von.

    Die Aegyptische Helena. Oper in zwei Aufzügen.

    [Leipzig, Mainzer Presse for Insel-Verlag,...

    First edition of Hofmannsthal’s text...

    £750

  9. HUBER, Victor Aimé; James Robertson CRAUFURD, translator.

    Stories of Spanish life, from the German...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1837.

    First edition in English; rare....

    £525

  10. MAJER, Andrea.

    Discorso sulla origine, progressi, e stato...

    Padua, ‘dalla Tipografia e Fonderia...

    First edition of Majer’s treatise on...

    £450

  11. MALCOLM, Alexander.

    A Treatise of Musick, speculative, practical...

    London, J. Osborn and T. Longman, F. Fayram,...

    First London edition of the first history...

    £1100

  12. MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix. 

    Symphonie No. 3, componirt und Ihrer Majestät...

    Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1843]. 

    First edition of Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’...

    £1500

  13. [MENESTRIER, Claude François.]

    Des representations en musique anciennes...

    Paris, René Guignard, 1681.

    First edition. A Jesuit professor...

    £600

  14. [MILAN, province of.]

    Ordo admittendi virgines ad monasterii...

    Milan, Tamburini and Valdoni, 1843.

    Scarce edition of this set of rites...

    £200

  15. MILHAUD, Darius.

    Le boeuf sur le toit, ou The nothing doing...

    Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1920.

    First edition of Milhaud’s Le boeuf...

    £2400

  16. MILHAUD, Darius, and Stéphane MALLARMÉ.

    Deux petits airs …

    [Paris, Éditions de la nouvelle revue...

    First edition of Milhaud’s polytonal...

    £750

  17. MOZART, et al.

    A volume of twelve piano duets adapted...

    London, mostly Birchall & Co., 1810s–1820s.

    A good collection of late Georgian piano...

    £350

  18. NAPIER, William, publisher and music-seller

    Three part-books of trios (complete) and...

    Mostly London, 1769–1775. 

    An impressive collection of string trios...

    £1250

  19. [PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]

    ‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday,...

    [Scunthorpe, 1914.]

    A rare broadside programme for a benefit...

    £185

  20. PLAYFORD, John.

    Psalms & Hymns in solemn Musick of foure...

    London, Printed by W. Godbid for J. Playford,...

    First edition of the first harmonised...

    £1850