Editor Herbert Giles (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Illustrated soft covers exhibit moderate wear on corners. Lighter wear with occasional creasing on edges and spine ends. There is a small, white, circular mark on the upper corner of the front cover. Light shelf wear and soiling to covers. Light soiling to page ends. Gift inscription to previous owner on the inside front cover. Creasing to the upper corner of the first few pages of text. Light writing in pencil on 2 pages of text. Rest of text is clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. "Two Volumes Bound As One Volume I-Prose, Volume II-Verse. "This edition is a unabridged republication of the two-volume second revised and enlarged edition published in 1923." All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-lib unless stated. …

Sheet Music. Condition: Very Good. J. & W. Chester, Published 1963. Sheet music, iv, 30 pp.; 24 cm; catalog no. J. & W. C. 286; copyright 1963 AB Nordiska Musikforlaget, Stockholm, later printing with J. & W. Chester/Edition Wilhelm Hansen London imprint on rear cover; cream illustrated paper covers with red lettering and black line drawings of Elizabethan objects, publisher's advertisement for junior ensemble music on rear. In Very Good condition. Music dealer's blue stamp (Patti Music Corporation) at foot of front cover. Mild shelf and edge wear with some creasing to corners. Staple bound, binding tight. Music clean and unmarked, with no performance annotations. Fifteen English sixteenth-century dances and songs arranged for one or two descant and treble recorders (or violins) with guitar accompaniment, a school ensemble edition. Ten of the settings are transcribed from keyboard pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, including three by William Byrd and Giles Farnaby's Fayne would I wedd; the collection closes with Thomas Morley's It was a lover and his lass, the song from As You Like It, printed with its words. Connor's introduction gives directions for playing and for balancing recorder and guitar. The Pavan is reprinted from the Schott Archive of Recorder Consorts. Contents: Introduction and Directions for Playing; Dance (anon.); Courante (anon.); Almain (anon.); Almain (Thomas Morley); Fayne would I wedd (Giles Farnaby); Pavan and Galliard (William Byrd); La Volta (William Byrd); Wolseys Wilde (William Byrd); The sick tune (anon.); Light o'love (anon.); El saltarello (anon.); Almain (Richard Johnson); Pavan (anon.); Watkins Ale (anon.); It was a lover and his lass (Thomas Morley).…

Paper. Condition: Good. Good copy. xviii, 430pp. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New edition small 4to, 2 volumes in a slipcase, in English. Dark blue folding case with tipped in titles to spine, small marks, ivory fasteners, dark blue volumes, each with tipped in titles to fronts, small marks, sound binding, rice paper, external stitched binding, excellent internally. Rhis set weighs 2.4 kg, for which extra shipping may be requestedto post airmail out of UK.…

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