Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
17th March 2017
I may only have just returned from the New York Book Fair, but next week I’ll be off to Edinburgh. This year is going to be a busy one. One book I shall on my stand there is this: Published in 1745, this is the rare first edition of Burk Thumoth’s collection of Scottish and Irish […]
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4th September 2012
The first edition of Pierre Baillot’s L’art du Violon, nouvelle Méthode was published in Paris in 1835. Two German translations appeared the same year, one by J. D. Anton (painstakingly copied out here by hand in 1837), the other by the German violinist Heinrich Panofka. I find it very interesting to see how Baillot’s book circulated […]
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