Benjamin Britten and Sidney Nolan, Children's Crusade, 1973
Full page colour illustrations by Sidney Nolan from a series of paintings based on Britten's Children's Crusade. Facsimile musical score published on the 22nd November 1973 to mark the composer's sixtieth birthday. Designed and printed at The Curwen Press, London and bound by Henry Brooks (Bookbinders) Limited and Zaehnsdorf (Binders) Ltd. The Children's Crusade was written for the members of Wandsworth School Boys' Choir to perform on the 50th Anniversary of The Save the Children Fund at St Paul's Cathedral on 19th May 1969. The work was dedicated to Hans Werner Henze.
Authors: Benjamin Britten and Sidney Nolan
Publisher: Faber Music Ltd, London
Date of Publication: 1973
Format: Hardcover. Limited edition of 700 (the total edition was 1000)
Book condition: Fair: An ex-library copy. Library stickers, stamps, and markings. Residual torn paper/card from library cards which have been partially removed from the pastedown. Spine cracked and split; residual adhesive to spine and endpapers where previous tape has been removed. The book is worn but has complete text and plate pages. The binding is slightly loose.
Full page colour illustrations by Sidney Nolan from a series of paintings based on Britten's Children's Crusade. Facsimile musical score published on the 22nd November 1973 to mark the composer's sixtieth birthday. Designed and printed at The Curwen Press, London and bound by Henry Brooks (Bookbinders) Limited and Zaehnsdorf (Binders) Ltd. The Children's Crusade was written for the members of Wandsworth School Boys' Choir to perform on the 50th Anniversary of The Save the Children Fund at St Paul's Cathedral on 19th May 1969. The work was dedicated to Hans Werner Henze.
Authors: Benjamin Britten and Sidney Nolan
Publisher: Faber Music Ltd, London
Date of Publication: 1973
Format: Hardcover. Limited edition of 700 (the total edition was 1000)
Book condition: Fair: An ex-library copy. Library stickers, stamps, and markings. Residual torn paper/card from library cards which have been partially removed from the pastedown. Spine cracked and split; residual adhesive to spine and endpapers where previous tape has been removed. The book is worn but has complete text and plate pages. The binding is slightly loose.
Full page colour illustrations by Sidney Nolan from a series of paintings based on Britten's Children's Crusade. Facsimile musical score published on the 22nd November 1973 to mark the composer's sixtieth birthday. Designed and printed at The Curwen Press, London and bound by Henry Brooks (Bookbinders) Limited and Zaehnsdorf (Binders) Ltd. The Children's Crusade was written for the members of Wandsworth School Boys' Choir to perform on the 50th Anniversary of The Save the Children Fund at St Paul's Cathedral on 19th May 1969. The work was dedicated to Hans Werner Henze.
Authors: Benjamin Britten and Sidney Nolan
Publisher: Faber Music Ltd, London
Date of Publication: 1973
Format: Hardcover. Limited edition of 700 (the total edition was 1000)
Book condition: Fair: An ex-library copy. Library stickers, stamps, and markings. Residual torn paper/card from library cards which have been partially removed from the pastedown. Spine cracked and split; residual adhesive to spine and endpapers where previous tape has been removed. The book is worn but has complete text and plate pages. The binding is slightly loose.
