English Music
Turner W J
Collins, London, 1947 Collins 'Britain In Pictures' Series. Book
Size: 6.5x9" (16.5x23cm)
Condition: Fine foxing / staining to endpapers only, clean tight bright pages otherwise. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. rubbed extremities, small tear. Size 9 x 6. 12 superb colour plates and 21 illustrations in black and white 48pages
A fascinating look at the close connection between the British people and their music, tracing 'the splendid story from the days of William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Purcell and Dr Thomas Arne to the 20th Century, which produced Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Delius, composers of worldwide renown'
