olin Coleman Music


Id 25856
Category antiquarian book
Author / Composer SIMPSON, Christopher (ca 1605-1669)
Title A Compendium: or, Introduction to Practical Music. In Five Parts. The Seventh Edition, with Additions: Much more Correct than any Former, the Examples being put in the most useful Cliffs.
Place London
Publisher Printed for T. Astley
Publication Date 1727
ISBN / Plate No.
Series
Size Small 8vo. [xiv (title, foreword, preface, dedication, poem, contents, etc.)], 144pp.
Description Calf, rebacked and small wear and scuffs repared, housed in cloth slipcase. Without the frontispiece; the seventh edition is a re-issue of the sixth with a different titlepage. pp.33-48 misbound following p.60; leaf with pp.135/136 damaged with small hole near head affecting text. With the contemporary ownership signature of John Worsley.
Reference RISM B/VI/2 p.785. Not in Gregory or Bartlett. ESTC T77978.
Price £575.00

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