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1772 The Elements of Musick Display'd
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Scarce
The first edition of this scarce work.
A brilliant exploration of music and its history, presenting the rudiments of music, the structure of musical instruments, the theory of sound, a musical dictionary, and more. An educational treatise made easy.
Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and engraved music throughout.
By William Tans'ur, a hymn-writer whose other musical manual, 'A New Musical Grammar', was still popular in the nineteenth century.
Collated, complete, despite errors in pagination.
Condition
In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards, with renewed endpapers. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Frontispiece is edge worn and repaired.
Near Fine
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