Handel's Messiah A Sacred Oratorio - The Performing Edition - Vocal Score & Pianoforte Accompaniment
by Handel, George Frederic; Macfarren, G. A. ( Ed)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The London Music Publishing Company Limited, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth boards with ornate black decoration and gilt titles to front. Binding tight with light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Boards clean with occasional small scuff mark. All edges gilt. Content clean and bright with no markings. Prize plate from The London College of Music to Mary Adela Summers dated 1891 to front pastedown. Previous owners ink name to front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers. Not ex-library. 210 pages. All books are individually described.
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- Bookseller
- Soin2Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000816
- Title
- Handel's Messiah A Sacred Oratorio - The Performing Edition - Vocal Score & Pianoforte Accompaniment
- Author
- Handel, George Frederic; Macfarren, G. A. ( Ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The London Music Publishing Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Pages
- 210
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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