1803 The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Rebound

An autobiographical work of Mr Charles Dibdin, a noted eighteenth and nineteenth century musician and composer, with a composition portfolio of over six hundred songs. This work recounts his successful professional career, with numerous anecdotes and stories about his time as a public character and musician. Also including the words of his songs.

The first edition of this work. 

Complete in four uniformly bound volumes. 

Previously owned by Sir Joseph Verdin, 1st Baronet, a nineteenth and twentieth century salt industrialist and philanthropist. Sir Joseph Verdin also served as Justice of the Peace for Herefordshire an High Sheriff in 1903. His bookplate can be found to the front free-endpaper of each volume.

The title page the title pages do not call for the "sixty small prints taken from the subjects of the songs, and invented, etched, and prepared for the aqua tint by Miss Dibdin", as it does in later impressions of this work published the same year. The prints are referred to in the indexes, though this is an earlier printing of the set before the prints were added.

With the half titles to all volumes, except Volume II. 

A very scarce to find work in any edition, let alone the first edition.