NO AUTHOR - SEVERAL UNNAMED EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION BY W.S.B. MATHEWS - A Manual of Music - Its History, Biography and Literature; A Complete History of Music Illustrated with Chronological Charts, Including Biographies and Portraits of Eminent Composers with Characteristic Specimens from their Works, Carefully Analyzed etc.

Chicago, The Musical Manual Publishing Company/G.L. Howe & W.M. Derthick, 1888. 1888, 1st Edition. Hardcover . Hardback, folio, appx 10 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches, gilt and embossed black cloth, 604 pages, VG or better. Just a few external imperfections to this handsomely bound volume with a mostly bright, clean and fresh outer appearance. Spine and surface areas of the beveled boards quite nice. Corners bumped and rubbed (bottom corners scuffed through). Spine-ends not perfect, but showing only minor wear. Also externally, a couple of very small biopredation holes along the front joint & a bit worse of the same along the back joint. Back cover has hardly any surface wear at all and has had two or three very small pieces of white paper flecked off, perhaps having adhered from an adjacent. piece of sheet music. Inside, very clean, no names, no writing. Decorative endpapers with hinges intact and a very sound binding. Numerous colorlful pages of historical time-lines. Numerous engraved portaits - 47, including Cherubini, Gottschalk, Gounod, Henselt, Hummel, Meyerbeer, Moskowski, Paganini, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, Scharwenka, Spontini, Tausig, Thalberg, etc. Pronuciation Key to French, German, Italian. Extensive self-pronounicng Dictionary of Technical Terms. Dictionary of Important Musical Works, Instruments & Institutions. Dictionary of Musical Artists and Composers. Indexed. Very scarce. Due to the book's size, extra shipping will have to be quoted. Very Good.

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