Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750, Volume I
Philipp Spitta, translated by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller Maitland
From the first English printing, 1884–85 (Novello)
The first volume of the great nineteenth-century life of Bach: his ancestors, his childhood, and the first ten years of his mastery, with the music of the older Bachs discussed in detail.