The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, in Two Volumes.

306; 305 pp. Purple cloth, gilt titles, black blind-stamped decorations, top edges gilt, illustrated endpapers, engraved frontispieces and plates. A collection of biographical vignettes focused on the romantic lives of various classical composers, including: Johann Sebastian Bach; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Ludwig von Beethoven; Felix Mendelssohn; Frederic Chopin; Franz Liszt; Richard Wagner; Robert Schumann; etc.