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  • London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume III

    1783-1792

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume IV

    1799-1821

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume I

    1711-1763

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume II

    1763-1782

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume V

    1821-1844

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800

    by Heather Ladd, Leslie Ritchie, Máire MacNeill, Chelsea Phillips, Nevena Martinovic, Michael Burden, Fiona Ritchie, Seth Wilson, Elaine McGirr0, Amanda Weldy Boyd1, Danielle Bobker2 ...
    Series series Performing Celebrity
    The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company

    Anton Reiff’s Riverboat Travel Journal

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    Series series The Hill Collection: Holdings of the LSU Libraries
    The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830–1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor William Harrison, hired Reiff, then freelancing in New York, to serve as musical director and conductor ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Regina Mingotti: Diva and Impresario at the King's Theatre, London

    by Michael Burden ...
    Series series Royal Musical Association Monographs
    Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Madrid to sing at the Spanish court, where the opera was directed by the great castrato, Farinelli. It is not known quite how Francesco Vanneschi, the opera ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • A Treatise on Wood Engraving: Historical and Practical

    by Henry G. Bohn, William Andrew Chatto & John Jackson ...
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    Being a Historical and Biographical Account of the Violin with Facsimiles of Labels of the Old Makers

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