TCHAIKOVSKY: His Life and Works, with Extracts from His Writings and the Diary of His Tour Abroad in 1888.

Beschreibung

- Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt on the spine with 2 circular raised devices stamped in gilt on the front cover. The binding is bumped & rubbed with some small stains. The head of the spine is chipped & frayed & the tail is slightly chipped. ix & 232 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece & a facsimile plate. The book is cracked at page 145. The pastedowns & endpapers are foxed & darkened with occasional light foxing & a few small stains in the rest of the book. Good. First edition.From the collection of Ralph Whitehead, an important figure in the arts and crafts movement in America, with his Byrdcliffe bookplate, with an illustration of an owl at top left above a depiction of Pan at bottom left. The bookplate, mounted at the bottom of the front pastedown, is adorned with the word Byrdcliffe beneath a central flora motif, with Whitehead's initials at right.In 1903 Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, with his wife Jane Byrd McCall and his colleagues, the artist Bolton Brown and writer Hervey White, founded the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in the Catskill Mountain village of Woodstock, New York.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

TCHAIKOVSKY: His Life and Works, with Extracts from His Writings and the Diary of His Tour Abroad in 1888.

Verlag

London: Grant Richards, 1900.

Erscheinungsjahr

1900

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1. Auflage

Zustand

Good

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• Music