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Assumed Reprint. (An earlier edition of 1883 is referred to in the editor's preface which may be part of Francis Hueffer's "Great Musicians Series" published by Novell & Co. Ltd.) Hard cover, 16mo, in original orange linen-like cloth, the front board ruled in black, and blocked with an musical vignette center front, titles in black to spine. In the original illustrated dust jacket, with subject portrait by Adlington in art nouveau design. Part of the 14-book musical biographical series sold for 2s. 6d. "obtainable from any bookseller in the Kingdom or Colonies." An undated former owner signature in fountain pen to ffep. **CONDITION: Overall, Very Good. Book cloth has a noticeable weave irregularity, and the contents are lightly toned, with minor foxing to exterior text block edges. Otherwise, hinges are in order, contents clean and fresh . D/J is Very Good with light darkening and a bit of wear to spine edges and a few ink spots to a flap. One 1/2 inch open tear on rear of d/j. Now in mylar protector. English AUTHOR, musician and composer Mrs. Julian Marshall, who also published under the name, FLORENCE ASHTON MARSHALL, (1843-1922) was born in Rome, the eldest daughter of Canon Thomas, vicar of Allhallows Barking. (DNB). She wrote a number of biographical articles appearing in the second edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1880), as well as an 1889 biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. A composer, she wrote musical scores for at least four choral works, and voice excercises for schools between 1886-1893, all published by London's Novello & Company, or their related configurations. (Worldcat). She was married in 1864 to Leeds flax spinning factory heir Julian Marshall (1836-1903) who became a noted collector of prints, musical autographs and was said to have the third largest musical library in England, after that of Buckingham Palace and one other collection in private hands. Florence's existence is distilled to a single line of print in his entry in the DNB, which seems uncharitable. (Much more is made of her husband's passion for lawn tennis and sponsorship the Leeds Musical Festival.) ARTIST Fred Adlington (1886-1931) is described in an obituary appearing in "The Musical Times" as primarily a violinist and conductor, although the artistic skill shown in his pen and ink art nouveau design for the frontispiece and dust jacket here are not to be denied, and a bit reminiscent of the Glasgow School's Jessie M. King's early work. Like Florence Ashton, he was primarily a composer, with two operas and three cantatas to his name. [Please see our related item No.9599, "The Century Guild Hobby Horse Magazine" in whose premier issue No. 1 (1884) Marshall has published, as Florence Ashton Marshall, a review entitled "A Day of all the Dead" of Henry Holmes's cantata based on a George Eliot poem, ""Oh may I join the choir invisible."] REF: A. Searle, "Julian Marshall and the British Museum: Music Collecting in the Later Nineteenth Century," British Library Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1985, pp. 67-87. Obituary: Fred Adlington, see OCLC 9984162960. British Library.
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