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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This first edition is in very good condition with a good dust jacket. Ex libris plate on the inside cover. Otherwise a very good clean coArthur Ord-Hume's earlier book Collecting Musical Boxes quickly established itself as the best introduction to the subject. In this new book, a very much larger, more comprehensive and more profusely illustrated work, he tells the detailed story of the birth of the musical box and its development from a charming novelty to an instrument capable of serious musical interpretation. Written by a worldwide authority on automatic musical instruments, the book is the fruit of more than thirty years' study of musical boxes and their history. It traces the progress of the musical box during the nineteenth century and shows how it reached its peak of perfection round about the time of the Great Exhibition held in London in 1851, while its peak of production came much later with the mass production…
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Musical Box: A History and Collector's Guide Hardcover - 1980
by Arthur W. Ord-Hume
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- Title Musical Box: A History and Collector's Guide
- Author Arthur W. Ord-Hume
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 409
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Allen & Unwin Australia, London
- Date 1980
- ISBN 9780047890079 / 004789007X
- Library of Congress subjects Music box - History, Music box - Collectors and collecting
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 79040178
- Dewey Decimal Code 789.8
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1980. A comprehensive and profusely illustrated history of musical boxes, with a biographical listing of makers and patentees, and an appendix illustrating tune sheets with a list of the makers who used them. Blue boards with bright gilt print on the spine. Spine ends gently rolled with faint foxing to the upper edge of the text block. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, spine slightly darkened, in mylar. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.
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