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Musical Instruments: Historic, Rare and Unique
by Hipkins, A.J
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- A fine and handsome example in decorative original morocco and vellum, plates are vivid, clean, and crisp.
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, c.1888. A fine and handsome example in decorative original morocco and vellum, plates are vivid, clean, and crisp. . Binding: Half morocco over cream vellum boards, with gilt ruling at joints. Decorative gilt embossed centerpiece with title on upper board. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with titles on two and three. All edges gilt. , Notes: Alfred James Hipkins (1826-1903) was an English musicologist whose ground-breaking work on cataloguing musical instruments remains celebrated to this day. Not only a writer and researcher, Hipkins also was a popular lecturer and performer. His greatest legacy, however, remains his book Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique (and perhaps also his later work A Description and History of the Piano-forte and of the older keyboard stringed instruments). Hipkins was a contributor to Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as a Honorary Curator of the General Museum of the Royal College of Music. , Size: Large Folio (405x305mm), Illustration: Illustrated with 50 lithographed colour plates of musical instruments by William Gibb. , Pages: P. Half Title, Publisher’s Note, Full Title, Blank, Dedication, Blank, Contents (1-2), Introduction (ix-xix), Blank, Text and Plates, Index (103-107), (1). , Category: Book Plate Books Colour; Book Musical;
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- Bookseller
- Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B4622
- Title
- Musical Instruments: Historic, Rare and Unique
- Author
- Hipkins, A.J
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine and handsome example in decorative original morocco and vellum, plates are vivid, clean, and crisp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- c.1888
- Keywords
- Book Plate Books Colour; Book Musical;
Terms of Sale
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Fine
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
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