MUSIC & DANCE
MUSIC & DANCE
Renaissance Classics with
Commentary from Two Modern Masters 
Campion, Thomas. Selected songs of Thomas Campion. Boston: David Godine, 1973. Folio. 161, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, in original dust jacket; jacket lightly dust-soiled, price-clipped. A beautiful clean copy of a beautifully done book. (24833)
Rules for the Choir Catholic Church. Province of Mexico City (Mexico). Concilio Provincial (3rd, 1585). Statuta Ecclesiae Mexicanae necnon Ordo in choro servandus curante Vallisoletanae Ecclesiae capitulo sumptus suppeditante. Mexici: Apud Marianum Zunnigam, et Ontiverium, 1797. Folio (27.5 cm; 11"). [1], 140 pp., [2] ff.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Uncommon. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three copies in the U.S.
• Medina, Mexico, 8711. Contemporary vellum over paste boards of printer's waste, vellum cockled and that of the front cover lightly rodent-gnawed at board edges. Worming in text, some of which is meander type, costing letters. Not a great copy, but given the scarcity, an acceptable one. (24103)
A Black-Letter
17th-Century Folio
BCP
Church
of England. Book
of Common Prayer.
The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites
and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England,
together with the psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung
or said in churches [as below].... London: Charles Bill, Henry Hills,
& Thomas Newcomb, 1687. Folio (31.7 cm, 12.5"). Add. engr. t.-p., [231]
ff. (S1 bound in out of order, T6 lacking, Tt2-4 (blank) lacking, H2 of Psalms
signed H3). [with] Bible.
O.T. Psalms. English. Sternhold & Hopkins. The whole book of psalms.
Collected into English meeter ... conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes
to sing them withal. London: Pr. by J.M. for the Company of Stationers, 1687.
Folio. [64] ff.
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black-letter
Anglican prayer book, with an additional engraved architectural title-page
done by P. Williamson (giving a date of 1686), and a Kalendar printed in red
and black. The Psalter has a separate title-page (dated 1686) but continuous
registration with the BCP; the accompanying Psalms has separate title-page and
registration, and features music. The type is handsome throughout, and generally
is notably LARGE.
Illustrated Explorations of the
Countryside Dibdin, Charles. Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland, in a series of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends. London: G. Goulding & John Walker (pr. by T. Woodfall), [1801–02]. 4to (28.9 cm, 11.4"). 2 vols. I: 404 pp.; 27 plts. II: [2], 406, [2] pp.; 33 plts., 1 fold. map, 1 fold. chart.
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illustrated with 60 copper-engraved and aquatint plates, one folding map, and one folding chart. The copper engravings are done in two different styles; one set consists of large renditions of scenery, the other of smaller depictions of people and everyday life — the former done from Dibdin's own paintings, and the latter from drawings by his daughter Anne.
• Anderson, Book of British Topography, 373; Lowndes 638; NSTC D1044. Not in Abbey, Life in England; not in Ray, The Illustrator & the Book in England. On Dibdin, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter caramel morocco and ochre cloth. Light to moderate foxing; mild offsetting around plates; four pages with patch of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item. Plates depicting people all with small area of waterstaining to upper inner portions, just touching corner of platemark without affecting images; scenic plates unaffected. All edges marbled. 
A solid, handsome, satisfying set. (26939)
To
the
Lodge
Let’s Repair![Dunham, John Moseley]. The vocal companion, and Masonic register. In two parts.... Boston: John M. Dunham, 1802. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). 180 (lacking pp. 17–20, 51–58, 71/72, and plate), 103, v pp.
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uncommon collection of Masonic songs and toasts, here in its first and only edition, in “A.L. 5802.” The two volumes, bound in one, include a history of
Freemasonry
in America along with descriptions
of early American lodges, membership rosters, and accounts of some rituals. Although no music is given, tune names are provided for many of the lyrics; song XXXIX, which begins “Hail Masonry divine; / Glory of ages shine, / Long mayst thou reign,” is set to “God Save the King.”
• Sabin 100650; Shaw & Shoemaker 2166. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-stamped Masonic devices in compartments. Lacking the plate and pp. 17–20, 51–58, and 71/72 of the first part. Title-page and several others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages sometime exposed to moisture or mildew, thus variously browned, age-toned, and brittle, with some tears; our second double-page photo was taken to show the worst such damage. P. 84 of the second part with two names carefully excised.
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