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Norris, Gerald. A MUSICAL GAZETTEER OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1981.
352 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0715378457 Many b&w photographs. "Containing more than 3,000 entries, (this book) lists the places where musicians were born and died and where important composers, like Elgar, Vaughan Wil liams and Britten, wrote their works. It is equally concerned with the visits of foreign composers, such as Haydn, Mozart, Berlioz, Wagner, Puccini and many others, and provides addresses at which they stayed, often presenting their comments o n B r i tish habits, food, weather and much else. Famous occasions, like the world premiere of 'Messiah' in Dublin and Mendelssohn's trip to Fingal's Cave, are described in detail. There are accounts, too, of less familiar episodes such as Sousa di s ap pe ar ing through the floor in Merthyr Tydfil, Liszt in Chester and Dvorak in Hove. Composers and authors of favourite hymns are also included, and we learn precisely where Sullivan composed the tune 'Onward, Christian Soldiers' and where L yte w rot e ' Abi de with Me'. The compiler....has not neglected the twentieth century, and considerable space is devoted to contemporary composers." Light cigarette odor, minor stain on free front endpaper, two very small stains on free rear end pape r, very lig ht b rowning to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, very light edge browning. Very Good/Very Good
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Norris, Gerald. WEST COUNTRY PIRATES AND BUCCANEERS.
Dovecote, Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset, 1990.
133 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H), soft cover. ISBN 0946159866 B&w illustrations, maps. "With few exceptions, England's most celebrated pirates first put to sea from the creeks and harbours of Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Avon. Men like Blac kbeard of Bristol, whose whiskered face 'frightened America more than any Comet!'; the successive buccaneers who turned Lundy Island into a pirate stronghold; Harry Pay, whose annual return to his home port of Poole with enough brandy and wine f o r t he entire town left few sober; the great William Dampier, the only pirate whose portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery; and Captain Every, 'King of the Pirates', whose fortune was so immense he offered to pay of the National Debt i n re tu r n for a Royal Pardon. Then there were the women: the blue-blooded Lady Killigrew of Falmouth, and Maria Cobham of Plymouth, who wore buckskin breeches and was as skilled with a dagger as she was with her brace of pistols." Interior - cle an an d t ig ht with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - soft crease at bottom corner of covers, very small crease at top corner of front cover, very small bump at top of spine, minor rubbing. Very Good
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