Musical Instruments

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.… Read more about this item

London; A. & C. Black, 1945., 1945. Hard Cover. Royal quarto, pp. xxiii, [1], 123, [1]. With forty-eight coloured plates. Scarlet publishers' cloth, with gilt titles and ornaments to cover and spine, in a pale turquoise blue publishers' dust-jacket. Ever so slightly bumped at spine tips and corners otherwise a a clean, bright, tight copy free of… Read more about this item

A & C. Black Ltd, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. No Edition Remarks. 123 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1888. First edition, first printing. Rebound in one-half red morocco over tan cloth sympathetic to the original binding. Light to moderate foxing throughout, mostly not affecting plates.. 16 x 12 inches. Limited to just 1040 copies.

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1888. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Good in three-quarter leather. The binding on this copy is essentially shot although loosely holding together, however the interior pages, including the full-color engraved plates, are fine with only a few smudges in the margins and some offsetting from the facing plates. We have noticed no foxing.… Read more about this item

A. and C. Black, Ltd.,, 1921.. Hardcover. Used, very good. Rather nice condition, all plates present. This is a very large hardcover with red boards and cream spine, gold lettering and design on spine and front cover, 48 full-page color plates, 122pp, copyright 1888 print date 1921. CONDITION: Cover has slight wear on edges, very lightly soiled by… Read more about this item

London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1945. (UK) Owner;s inscription to half-title page, no other markings, a bit of toning to edges of preliminary pages, a bit of"softness" to cover corner tips, there is a small portion of the cover cloth which has bubbled up to the side of the leading edge of front cover, edge tear to page… Read more about this item

A & C Black, 1945. A fine copy despite having belonged to an academic library. The only marks are one small cancelled name plate in the top right corner of the half-title and a half-inch accession stamp on the full title. 48 plates in colour.. Cloth. Fine. Illus. by William Gibb. Folio.