Musical Reminiscenses: Containing an Account of the Italian Opera in England, from 1773 The Fourth Edition, Continued to the Present Time and Including the Festival in Westminster Abbey - Mount Edgcumbe, Richard Earl of, 1764-1839 (London Andrews; Wall, 1834)
Richard Edgcumbe, second Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was a British politician.
In this book Edgbcumbe describes operas he has heard from 1773 to 1834 and the Handel commemoration (musical festival in Westminster Abbey) in 1834.
bound in purple (formerly red?) leather with golden embellishment and gilt edges.
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Music history; Music criticism; Opera; United Kingdom