Memoirs of Music by Roger North, Attorney-General to James II. Now first Printed from the Original MS. and edited, with Copious Notes, by Edward F. Rimbault, LL.D. F.S.A. Member of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, etc.

London: George Bell, 186, Fleet Street, 1846.

Price: $500.00


About the item

First edition. Printed by Charles Whittington, Chiswick. Engraved frontispiece portrait of North. xiv, 139, [1] pp. Small 4to. Contemporary red quarter pebbled morocco and matching red cloth, t.e.g. Fine.

Item #44076

Charles Burney used the manuscript in these unpublished essays writings by North (1651-1734) who was Attorney-General to James II. He has been considered the first English Music Critic.