Vies de Haydn, de Mozart et de Métastase : the present work is presumed to contain more musical information, in a popular form, than is to be met with in any other book of a size equally moderate : préface de la traduction anglaise.

Accession number: 
PML 66862
Author: 
Stendhal, 1783-1842.
Published: 
Paris : P. Didot l'aîné, 1817.
Description: 
viii, [4], 7-468 p. ; 21 cm
Notes: 

Half t.p.: p. [i]; "Se vend: ... ": p. [ii]; t.p.: p. [iii]; "Préface": p. [v]-viii; Errata: p. [1]-[3]; text: p. [7]-468.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
The Life of Haydn is based on G. Carpani's Le Haydine (Milan, 1812). The biographical part of the Mozart, credited by Stendhal to Schlichtegroll is based on T. Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrysostome-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart (Paris, 1801).

Binding: 
Bound in red glazed wrappers.
Provenance: 
From the library of Paul Hirsch, with his bookplate.
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Classification: 
Binding Collection
Genres: 
Wrappers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books