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London: R. Cocks & Co, 1841. Second edition. VOL I: xxxii, 344, +10 + (18) adverts; with portrait frontis; VOL II: (ii), 216pp. Many musical examples in Vol I, and they take up the whole of Vol II. Toning to margins of frontis and intermittent browning and occasional light soiling throughout. In contemporary marbled boards and quarter green grained cloth: both vols have been rebacked with new endpapers and the original paper-labelled spines laid down. Both labels are scuffed, and that of Vol II is largely missing. The boards are rubbed and the corners eroded. Good firm set. VG.

Price: £75.00

London: Ove Arup & Partners, 1967. 28pp, including covers. A4 stapled booklet, 296 x 210mm, printed on glossy paper, richly illustrated with monochrome photographs and plans, and giving an account of Arup's project to convert the Snape Maltings into the Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Sugden supervised the acoustics. Contents clean and unmarked: some light soiling to cover. Very Good.

Price: £15.00

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. First edition. xiv, 530pp. The front free endpaper bears the 1990 ownership name of Rosamund Strode, formerly Britten's musical assistant, whose pertinent pencilled marginalia are to be found on 6 pages of the text. Contents otherwise very clean. In the original navy cloth, spine titled in gilt. Spine ends slightly blunted, and a faint ridge down the spine, otherwise very bright and fresh. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket with tiny scuffs at the corners and slightly knocked at head of spine: otherwise clean and fresh. Lovely association copy of a scarce title. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.

Price: £225.00

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, in conjunction with The Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh, 1998. First edition. xx, 279pp, with musical illustrations and photographs, and with the unopened CD inside the back cover. Contents immaculate, appears unread. In the original brown cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean and bright, firm and sharp. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, bright and crisp. Lovely copy. Fine in fine dust-jacket.

Price: £50.00