Early Keyboard Instruments From Their Beginnings To The Year 1820
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1930). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xviii. 154pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dj. Head and tail of spine and bottom corners bumped and rubbed. Minor discoloration to bottom front corner and head of spine. One-inch on head of dj spine and parts on tail of dj spine missing. Creasing, chipping, small tears,and discoloration to dj. Frontispiece. Sporadic foxing throughout not affecting text or plates. Includes chapters on: the Origin of the keyboard, mediaeval instruments, the clavichord, the spinet and virginal, the harpsichord, the pianoforte until the year 1820 as well as a list of illustrations and select bibliography of works and keyboard instruments. Illustrated with full-page b/w plates and some in-text drawings. Dj in fair, book in good condition. g. Item #12004
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