[Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]

Miscellanies By the Honourable Daines Barrington. London: J. Nichols, 1781



Folio (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.; 292 x 215 mm). Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards; rebacked with original spine laid down.

This work contains the celebrated  "Account of a Very Remarkable Young Musician," a detailed description of the young Mozart's visit to London in 1764–65, with an engraved portrait by P. Cook, reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions, lx (1770). The Miscellanies also contain tracts and discourses on the North Pole and on natural historical themes.