Sir George Grove H C Colles (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. 1940 4th edition. All five volumes, dated 1940, plus the supplementary volume dated 1945. With 113 full-page plates of illustrations of which 25 are reproduced in colour. Blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge blue; 1-5 cream and red dustjackets; supplementary volume dj grey and red. Condition: Very good. Minor edgewear. Bookplate inside front boards, same to each volume; vols 1-5 also have the same owner s name written to ffep, and dated February 1944. Vol 1, rear inner hinge showing mesh. Vol 2 front inner hinge paper beginning to split. But all bindings firms. Endpapers a little browned, pages generally clean and bright. A little grubbiness to edge of text block. Djs with darkening to spine and a little wear to edges. Now in removable plastic sleeves. Size: 9x6.5in / 23x17cm. Vol 1 A to C 822pp; Vol II D to J 836pp; Vol III K to O 824pp; Vol IV P to Sonatina 876pp; Vol V Song to Z 828pp; Supp. vol. A ti Z 704pp. Combined weight: 8.8kg. Due to the weight, there will be extra charges for overseas deliveries. Please ask for a quote.

Edited by Waldo Selden Pratt and Charles N. Boyd (Vol. VI). Illustrated by frontis, plates (some color), ports, music notation and reproductions each volume. uniform later printings of 3rd edition. c. 1904, 1927, 1932 (I-V) c. 1920, 1928 (VI). 6 volumes. Green cloth, gilt topboard emblem and spine print in printed green jackets with matching topboard emblem. Royal 8vo. pp. 773; 880; 787; 840; 791; 438. Near Fine/Very Good/Unclipped price in clear archival cover. Bindings kept immaculate by jackets with sunned spines and folds, light soil and shallow edgewear; two have larger chips, two have one tear. No ownership or marking and not fine as some pastedowns starting to tone. Revised and reset, 80 additional authors, 96 added plates, music of nations expanded. Volume I (A-C); II (D-J); III (K-O); IV (P-Son); V (Song-Z); VI (American Supplement, New Edition with New Material). For those having space for Six volumes, 9.5 by 10-inches shelved. Standard music reference (went to 6th or 1980 20v. edition). (Outside US, parcel post or m-bag available).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.