Buy this book on-line BLOM, ERIC: : THE ROMANCE OF THE PIANOLONDON.FOULIS,1928. ISBN No ISBN.
UK, 8vo HB, no dw/dj, 1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn, but 2 Trinity College of Music, London, book prize-labels - one pasted to ffe,the other laid in - both to same named
person: Anna Perrot [of Torquay] for pianoforte playing, and dated for 1931+
1932 respectively.Publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright, crisp, stamped gilt college armorial/heraldic crest/arms+Latin motto and gilt,slightly dulled/oxidised letters to upper bd,and similar stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip.The stamped gilt heraldic crest consists of a convex shield with a straightened (horizontal) 'Chief' (the top 1/3rd of shield) with 3, in a row horizontally,human 'Charges' (heads of choirboys).A 'Clarion' (a musical instrument in a stylised form) - of a harp
- to 'Fess' point (the exact centre of shield) and a Latin motto - 'Gloria-in-Excelsis-Deo' in an open 'Scroll/ribbon' beneath the shield.Minimal shelf-wear to extremities and corners; some miniscule rubbing,some light bumping to corners and head+foot of spine/ backstrip with reciprocal creasing - as usual/normal - but bds generally clean.Top edge coloured dark blue; fore-edge lightly dulled but clean; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,1st edn,vii- xiiipp+3-241pp [paginated] includes half- title+title pages,pictorial colour onlay frntis,contents+illus lists/tables,author intro,12 chapters,18 b/w plates/illus - all called for - genealogy of the piano,a biblio,an index,and 4pp piano makers/ sellers b/w adverts to rear.
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