Allgemeine Theorie der schönen Künste
Subtitle: in einzeln, nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Kunstwörter auf einander folgenden Artikeln abgehandelt
By: von Johann George Sulzer ...
Contributors: Kirnberger, Johann Philipp, 1721-1783; Schulz, J. A. P. (Johann Abraham Peter), 1747-1800; Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801
Publisher: Bey M.G. Weidemanns Erben und Reich
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 1287
Subjects: German; Arts; Aesthetics; Dictionaries; Early works to 1800
Notes: The articles relating to music are largely by J.A.P. Schulz and J.P. Kirnberger; see New Grove.

Engraved frontispiece by Daniel Chodowiecki. Tipped onto the foredge margin of p. 899 is a folded perspective view engraved by Chodowiecki after Lambert. At p. 946 ff. are 5 woodcut plates with music, 3 of them folded and tipped onto foredge margins. Woodcut t.p. vignette, v. 1, signed by Unger. Similar vignette in v. 2 signed by Hafe. Head and tail pieces, some signed by Unger after I.W. Meil. In-text cuts, many of them musical notation.

New Grove dict. of music and musicians

Binding: tan paper sprinkled black, half mottled leather. Red spine labels with author and title in gilt; black spine labels with pt. numbers and scope. The edges red.
Table of contents: title: Erster Theil, von A bis J; title: Zweyter Theil, von K bis Z.