Music and Manners in France and Germany: A Series of Travelling Sketches of Art and Society.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1841. Book. 3 vols. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 maroon morocco, marbled boards, morocco labels. Pp. xvi, 30, binders/ errata leaf; viii, 302; xii, 290 + leaf of ads. Minor rubbing, an excellent set. First edition of a key eye-witness account of continental music and musicians by the principal English music journalist and critic of the time. "Three delightful volumes abounding not only in descriptions of musical performances, and observations in society, but in lively and incisive, if frequently prejudiced, sketches of foreign authors and artists... and a most valuable repertory not only of musical criticism but of musical history." --DNB.