Bird, Joseph - GLEANINGS From The HISTORY Of MUSIC, From the Earliest Ages to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1850. 1st trade edition, after a privately printed edition the year prior. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Pale yellow eps. vii, [1 (blank)], 299, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Square & tight. Gilt bright. Withal, a pleasing VG+ copy.