1898 Harmonic and Keyboard Designing: An Easy Method of Producing An Endless Variety of Most Beautiful Designs

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First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

First edition. Presented with compliments of The Textile Manufacturer, Manchester and London, dated April 5th 1929. Very scarce work. Illustrated with thirty-nine plates, twelve of which are folding. Collated complete. An earnest and carefully thought out study on the designs of a variety of harmonics and keyboards suited to many manufacturers, introducing an entirely new method by which any individual may become familiar with a ready system of transposing music into design. With chapters on notes of the musical scale, recording sounds, the manner of designing, square designs, ornamental and floral designs, and more. Written by C. H. Wilkinson. Previously held in the The Textile Institute library, a professional body for those engaged in clothing, footwear, and textiles founded in 1910 and incorporated in England by a Royal Charter granted in 1925.