First published 1981, 1st edition. The standard work on Byrd. Foreword by Philip Brett, Joseph Kerman & Oliver Neighbour. 9 tables. Musical extracts. Cover has some damage - creasing/bubbling in the laminate on the front ( I think a manufacturing fault) and some scraping at the lower edge of the rear. The blue cloth boards are vg, with slightly discoloured edges. Jacket & pages\' edges have some tanning too. Fore-edges have a \'scar\'/knock, mostly pp193-200, only affecting the margins. Owner\'s name/place/date on ffep, text has no annotation.\"The product of twenty years of study, this monograph draws on attitudes and insights familiar from Kerman\'s earlier work, critical studies of other great composers...as well as broader historical investigations of Elizabethan music..Formerly Heather Professor of Music at Oxford, now (well, then) Professor of Music at the Univ. of California at Berkeley.\"pa-316721