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Garland Publishing Inc., 1987. Original decorative boards. A Garland Series; Seventeenth Century Keyboard Music Series (Book 16). Pages are clean (unmarked) but slightly age-toned. Binding is tight and secure. Boards have light rubbing to extremities. Clear glassine dust jacket is moderately scuffed with rubbing to extremities. Nice copy of this increasingly scarce title. . Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good.

Oxford University Press, 1962. 74pp. Original Stiff Wraps. Ex-libris ink stamp to inside fornt cover. Inner pages are Clean (unmarked) but yellowed with age. Binding is cracked But Pages are still Secure. Covers are moderately sunned/finger soiled/ink-rubbed with rubbing to extremities. . First Thus. Paperback. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1996. a good reading copy. pages clean. binding tight but front hinge cracked. edge wear. corners dented and starting to split. general shelf wear. . 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Good -.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering. Forward by Ralph Kirkpatrick. A definiteve study by one of the leading exponents in the contemptorary rediscovery of the harpsichord. Strategically illustrated. Exhaustive bibliography. The period covered ranges from approximately 1500, when concrete data became available, to 1800, after which the nature of the instrument is no longer of musicological significance. A chapter each is devoted to the five most important schools of harpsichord making. Over forty plates illustrate the most typical harpsichords of each country. Each set of drawings includes a plan drawn to scale, the interior of the instrument, and interesting details of action and construction. These are supplemented by reproductions of illustrations taken from early sources. The appendixes contain texts of relevant documents, including inventories of the shops of some prominent French makers and contemporary descriptions of instruments. Pages… Read More

New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 1971. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book shows some shelfwear. No jacket, cloth boards are yellowing. Corners and boards are worn and scuffed. Bookplate inside th front board. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout.. Unknown Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good.