Hubert Langley — Doctor Arne

Cambridge, At the University Press, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. The commercially scarce first edition of this informative biography on the composer Thomas Arne, encased in the exceedingly scarce dust wrapper. First edition. Commercially scarce.   In the publisher's original red cloth binding, encased in the very scarce clipped dust wrapper.   Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and one further plate. Also containing five musical examples across eight pages. Collated, complete.   An interesting biography on Thomas Arne, the prominent English composer, most famous for the song "Rule, Britannia!", whose influence was overshadowed by Handel in his day. Written by Hubert Langley, who in this work expands on the scholarship of Dr. W. H. Cummings, who at the time was the only other academic to approach the subject. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, encased in the very scarce clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in a minor chip towards the bottom edge of the front board and light loss of cloth to the spine tail. Dust wrapper exhibits more significant loss along the spine and a few further tears to the edges. Covers generally discoloured and spotted. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean with the odd spot only, more common to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Bartolozzi; T. Hudson. Very Good/Good Only.