Concord of Sweet Sounds: Musical Instruments in ShakespeareThe eighth in an on-going, near thirty-year collaboration between Stratford wood engraver Gerard Brender à Brandis and the Porcupine's Quill that started in 1980 with the publication of Wood, Ink & Paper, which has sold almost 5000 copies in 28 years. Twenty-four new engravings which depict all 27 musical instruments mentioned in Shakespeare. A companion volume to A Gathering of Flowers from Shakespeare (PQL 2006). |
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