T. Salmon. An essay to the advancement of musick, London, 1672

Salmon, Thomas

An essay to the advancement of musick, by casting away the perplexity of different cliffs. And uniting all sorts of musick... in one universal character, London: J. Macock, to be sold by John Carr, 1672

8vo (168 x 116cm), initial licence leaf, engraved musical examples within the text, 5 folding plates of engraved music (2 containing music by Christopher Simpson), with penultimate advertisement leaf (for John Carr) and final blank, errata corrected in an early hand, Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark ("II C 10") to verso of title, contemporary calf with double gilt fillet border, retaining early front flyleaf with the stamped letter 'B', lacking additional engraved title, rebacked with new endleaves, repaired at board edges and corners

FIRST EDITION of Salmon's proposal to simplify musical notation.

LITERATURE:

RISM Écrits, p.749; Wing S417