This is a thoroughly revised and updated version of a standard work of reference, first published in 1956, second edition in 1974. The third edition incorporates the extensive research of the last twenty years: biographical information on more than 1500 makers (including 500 not listed previously) and details of their surviving instruments are now separated into two substantial parts, the second part now including detailed descriptions and remarks on more than 2,000 instruments. The main text is complemented by four tables, ...
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This is a thoroughly revised and updated version of a standard work of reference, first published in 1956, second edition in 1974. The third edition incorporates the extensive research of the last twenty years: biographical information on more than 1500 makers (including 500 not listed previously) and details of their surviving instruments are now separated into two substantial parts, the second part now including detailed descriptions and remarks on more than 2,000 instruments. The main text is complemented by four tables, a geographical and chronological conspectus of makers, and an enlarged seven-language glossary of technical terms.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 9 x 11 1/2. 226 text pages with table illustrations before b/w photo plate section with 37 images. Dust jacket is complete and clean. Full black cloth exterior with title on spine in gold. Prior owner name on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked, tight and clean. The makers are listed in alphabetic order. Light foxing on top outer page edges.
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Very Good. Previous owner's address label to front paste down otherwise unmarked, jacket now in mylar. Large format hardcover. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.
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Very Good in a Very Good Minus dust jacket; Hardcover; 3rd Edition; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, just minor edgewear and a few light handling-marks, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Very light wear to the boards; Name to the first endpaper and minor age-related yellowing ot the endpapers; Text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75"-10.75" tall); 3.4 lbs; Red dust jacket with title in white lettering over dark blue cloth-covered boards; 1995, Oxford University Press; 824 pages; "Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440-1840, " by Donald H. Boalch.