| British Library: | K.10.c.13 |
| Curwen Press: | M13 |
| British Library: | K.10.c.13 |
| Curwen Press: | M13 |
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MY LADYE NEVELLS BOOKE WILLIAM BYRD Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by HILDA ANDREW, Mus. Bac. With a Preface by SIR RICHARD TERRY 1926 London: J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., 24 Berners Street, W. 1 Philadelphia : Curwen Inc., 1701 Chestnut Street
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Sixty copies of this edition of MY LADYE NEVELLS BOOKE have been printed. This is number [space for serial number]
[1-4]4 [5]6 [6-36]4; inserted leaves after [1]1 [5]6 and [2]2(3).
[i-vi] vii [viii] ix [x] xi-xliv,1-245 [+3].
Royal 4o: 13¼" × 10¼", artificial headband, top edge only trimmed and gilt, white laid, Perugia P M Fabriano; 18pt. Garamond; collotype illustrations on inserts after [1]1 and in [2]; in sections [6-36] music printed by offset lithography with punches specially designed by Paul Woodroffe; casing (contrast Ipa), black buckram gold-blocked on spine: ‘MY LADYE NEVELLS BOOKE * WILLIAM BYRD CURWEN 8322’; dust-jacket of patterned paper Kzb no.25.
One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
Legal deposit copy at B.L. numbered 4.
Printed edition of British Library MS Mus.1591: 42 keyboard pieces by William Byrd; music copied by John Baldwin, musical scribe and calligrapher; dated 11/Sep/1591; MS dedicated to Elizabeth Bacon, 3rd wife of Sir Henry Neville, of Billingbear House, Berkshire; the pieces seem to have been organised and corrected by Byrd himself.
13/Aug/1926
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Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 10/Oct/2012
| British Library: | Music Collections Hirsch M.827 |
As Ip.
As Ip.
As Ip, but casing, spine red cloth, boards patterned paper Kzb no.25; printed paper labels for spine and over upper cover.
Hirsch copy at B.L. lacks Limitation notice.
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