Tans'ur, William. (1700 - 1783) A New Musical Grammar, and Dictionary; Or, a General Introduction to the Whole Art of Musick.176 pp. Nicely bound in full modern brown leather. Binding a little rubbed, title page somewhat browned, but otherwise clean and sound and overall a fine copy. Tansurs New Musical Grammar, first published in 1746, went through several editions and was popular well into the nineteenth century. "Beneath its rather grandiose manner it is a sound treatise of a conservative type, based on the medieval gamut and deriving much from John Playfords Brief