{"product_id":"william-gardiner","title":"William GARDINER","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThe Music of Nature; or, An Attempt to Prove that What is Passionate and Pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speaking, and Performing upon Musical Instruments, Is Derived from the Sounds of the Animated World.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003exii, 13-506 pp.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIllustrated with a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and full-page and in-text musical notation throughout.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e8vo., 232 x 140 mm, bound in publisher’s blind embossed pink cloth over boards.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eBoston: J. H. Wilkins \u0026amp; R. B. Carter, 1837.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFirst American edition. A pioneering and eccentric work of 19th-century musicology and natural history. Gardiner meticulously transcribes bird songs, animal cries, and human speech patterns into classical notation to argue that all music originates in the natural world. The book is particularly celebrated for its striking color frontispiece, which stands as an early graphic exploration of synesthesia and the visual translation of musical timbre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eTitle page bears the neat circular ink stamp of artist and collector Alice Thévin (\"Lucet in Tenebris\").\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eSpine and top portion of the front and back boards a bit sun faded, head cap a little chipped, else fine.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67597240598849,"sku":null,"price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/files\/00362_1.jpg?v=1790690408","url":"https:\/\/www.calabrarebooks.com\/products\/william-gardiner","provider":"Calab Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}