[Autograph letter signed] to William Walsh (1663-1708), [early 1691] digitized at high resolution. Accompanying material digitized at medium resolution.
Alternative Title:
[Autograph letter signed] to William Walsh (1663-1708), [early 1691].
Imperfect: separate title page ("Annotations on Milton's Paradise lost ... By P.H.") wanting. Bound with his: Poems upon several occasions, London, 1695. Paradise regain'd. London. 1715.
Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; and for S. Birt, C. Hitch, J. Hodges, B. Dod, E. Wicksted, J. Oswald, J. Ward, J. Brindley, C. Corbet, and J. New,
Remarks on Sr. J. Hawkins's 'General history of music', 1776.
Image Count:
36
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, with numerous corrections, of notes on "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music" by Sir John Hawkins. Citations from Hawkins' work are followed by often disparaging commentary upon them; Burney remarks that...
Description:
Binding: contemporary parchment.
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814 and Hawkins, John, Sir, 1719-1789
Subject (Topic):
Music--18th century--History and criticism, Musical analysis, Music--Europe--History and criticism, Music--History and criticism, Opera, and Opera--Italy
"All the papers, in the two volumes here offered to the public, were written by myself and Mr. Hunt, except a letter communicated by a friend in the seventeenth number." Advertisement, p. vi.
Publisher:
Printed Archibald Constable and co., and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London,
"All the papers, in the two volumes here offered to the public, were written by myself and Mr. Hunt, except a letter communicated by a friend in the seventeenth number." Advertisement, p. vi.
Publisher:
Printed Archibald Constable and co., and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London,
