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Mace, Thomas
Estimate
3,500 - 4,000 GBP
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- Mace, Thomas
- Musick's Monument; or, a Remembrancer of the Best Practical Musick, London: Thomas Ratcliffe & Nathaniel Thompson, for the Author (to be sold by Himself, at His House in Cambridge), 1676
- paper
first edition, [20] & 272 pages, folio (c.31.2 x 19cm), engraved frontispiece portrait by Faithorne after Cooke, epistles, preface, list of subscribers and advertisement, 4 engraved plates (3 full-page: a "Lute Dyphone", a Musick-Roome, and a Table Organ), around 70 pages of woodcut music (pp.136-185 mainly lute tablature, pp.252-264 viol tablature), some type-set music, nineteenth-century diced russia, with C19 notes on the lute added to the flyleaves, frontispiece carefully inlaid, front cover nearly detached, foxing to title
Provenance
From the collection of the poet and International Brigade volunteer, Miles Ridley Tomalin (1903-1983). He worked with Arnold Dolmetsch on early instruments in the 1920s, and was a close friend of Imogen Holst and Diana Poulton. The Dolmetsch recorder on which he engraved the names of battles in Spain is now in the Imperial War Museum. Also included is a copy of Poulton's book John Dowland, inscribed to Tomalin.
Literature
ESTC R 21066; Gregory & Bartlett, i, 160; RISM Écrits, p.523; Wing M 120
Condition
Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
This is one of the most famous music books of the English Restoration, containing a complete treatise on the lute, and including eight lute suites. One engraving compares the English and French lutes, joined together: "The Lute Dyphone or Two Lutes in One. The English & ye French Lute Joy-ned are. Both of wch have made a Lute beyond Compare". He explains that "you see the very Instrument It Self...but Lately Invented, by My Self, and made with My own Hands, in the Year 1672". (For other engravings of lutes, please see Lots 44 and 74).