Tiger Books

three volumes, original decorated cloth, rebacked with original sunned backstrips relaid, corners rubbed, publisher’s catalogue volume II, minor spotting, later endpapers, key to characters added in ink to beginning of each volume, good. the key is as follows: Seraphael=Mendelsohn, Charles Auchester=Joachim, Clara Bennett=Jenny Lind, Anastase=Berlioz, Aronach=Zelter, Starwood Burney=Sterndale Bennett, St Michel=Costa, Marie Cerinthia= Fanny Heval; ES began this novel at the age of sixteen (DNB) and sent the manuscript to Benjamin Disraeli. Disraeli forwarded it to his publisher and wrote to the author: ‘No greater book will be written on music, and it will one day be recognised as the imaginative classic of that divine art’; first edition; 334, 309 and 294 pages;