Observations Of A Musician - Louis Lombard HC 1894 Utica NY Signed

As pictured, hardcover book measuring 4.5" by 5.75" in very good condition for its age. This is a second edition, printed in 1894, augmented from the first edition containing six more chapters. It is signed on the frontispiece "To my friend Mr. Chas Hutchinson - Compliments of Louis Lombard - Utica, NY Sept. 25, 1894". A clean book overall with some scratches and scuffs to the covers and light dog-eared corners. The interior is very clean. 

Louis Lombard (1861-1927) was a French-born composer, financier, and author, in the US for long periods after 1876. Louis Lombard was a violinist, composer, and conductor who founded the Utica (N.Y.) Conservatory of Music in 1889 and led an orchestra at his estate in Switzerland in the early twentieth century. The Louis Lombard papers contain published scores of Lombard's music for piano, voice, chamber ensemble, and orchestra, and personal and professional documents such as newspaper clippings, correspondence, and concert programs. Notable correspondents include Jules Massenet, John Philip Sousa, etc. 

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