Memories of a Musical Life

Reprinted from the 1901 New York edition.  306pp, with monochrome portrait frontispiece and further black and white illustrations in text.  Dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine.  Red endpapers.  Cloth a little shelf worn with  few mild marks, very gently rounded at spine base.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. William Mason (d.1908), from a musical family which included Lowell Mason and Henry Mason, was a pianist and composer and leading figure in American Church Music in the latter part of the 19th century.  The first American piano student of Franz Liszt, he is remembered above all for his piano compositions.