The Dancing Schoole. Five Pieces for Bamboo Pipe. Adapted by Arthur Benjamin from Tunes taken from 'The Dancing Master', London 1719
Paris, Editions de l'Oiseau Lyre, [1934].
Large oblong octavo, [iv], 16, [1] (colophon) pages.
Saddle-sewn plain wrappers with the stylishly decorated and printed wrappers, with the two shapes cut out of the front cover backed up with the original sheet of light blue film (kept in place by the folded edges of the wrappers); front cover slightly marked; an excellent copy.
Melbourne-born Louise Berta Mosson Hanson Dyer (1888-1962), patron of the arts and music publisher, established Editions de l'Oiseau Lyre in Paris in the early 1930s, after settling there in 1928. The 1981 contribution by Jim Davidson on Dyer in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' was followed by his major study, 'Lyrebird Rising - Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962' in 1994.
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