General History of the Science and Practice of Music (A New Edition with the Author's Posthumous Notes)
Author:
HAWKINS, SIR JOHN
Title:
General History of the Science and Practice of Music (A New Edition with the Author's Posthumous Notes)
Publisher:
Novello, Ewer & Co 1875
Description:
Three-volume set, original binding, small quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards & spine, xxxvi + 963pp + 16pp index & appendix (vols 1 & 2), frontispiece with tissueguard + 59 full-page plates with tissueguards (vol.3), VG- for vols 1&2 (heavy scuffing with some loss of surface to boards & spines, some staining to boards, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, moderate browning & foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, lighter sporadic foxing elsewhere), Vol. 3 poor (condition as per other volumes plus completely disbound but all plates present, 8cm tear to spine)
Keywords:
history science music theory