MUSICAL STUDIES AND SILHOUETTES: Translated from the French of Camille Bellaigue by Ellen Orr
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. The music critic of La Revue des Deux Mondes, Bellaigue (1858-1930) bitterly opposed modern music and was particularly violent in his denunciation of Debussy, his classmate at the Paris Cons. Small octavo: [vi], 375, [1, blank] pp. with the frontispiece with tissue guard, and 10 full-page portrait plates, all halftones after paintings. In the publisher's dark green diagonal fine-ribbed cloth binding designed by George Wharton Edwards, with black-stamped ruled borders, and author's monogram, white-stamped ruled borders, stylized garland and ribbon decorations, author's monogram, and frame, and gilt-stamped lyre, laurel wreaths, ornaments, and titling on the front panel, and black-stamped ruled bands, white-stamped ornamental bands, and gilt-stamped titling on the spine. Top edge gilt, with buff endpapers. Tiny bit of rubbing to the corners and tips; else fine. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Fine. Item #80441
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