Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the Plays of Shakespeare, with an Attempt at Their Explanation and Derivation, Together with Much of the Original Music

xiv, 354pp, sparsely illustrated with black and white plates and musical score extracts. Green cloth-covered boards, elaborately decorated with gilt pattern, gilt lettering front and spine.  Top edge gilt.  8vo.  Cloth a little pushed at spine ends.  Ungilded edges a little toned. Front and rear hinges cracked else internally neat and clean.

There is an interesting gift inscription on the front free endpaper from Sir Israel Gollancz (1893-1930), first secretary of the British Academy to Constance Schweich, who Gollancz described in this correspondence as his friend.  Constance Schweich (1869-1951) was a wealthy philanthropist and patron of the arts. The inscription is dated 1906, the year before Schweich made a substantial donation to the British Academy, in memory of her father, which led to the recreation of the Schweich Lectures on British Archaeology.