Rare full leather signed copy. 4to (25 x 18cm). xxxvii, 518 pages. Full leather. Limited to 3200 copies, of which 200 are bound in full leather. Blue morocco, with gilt title to spine, gilt decorations to spine and main boards, with all edges gilt. Very good condition in a black cloth covered slip case. Includes some diagrams and illustrations of makers' stamps. The limitation details are handwritten and signed by the author on half-title. Also inscribed and signed by the publisher on the title page.

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Title

The New Langwill Index: A Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors.

Publisher

Tony Bingham, London, 1993. Full leather. *

Publication Date

1993

Language

English

ISBN 10

0946113041

ISBN 13

9780946113040

Binding

Hardcover

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Signed by Author(s)

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Instruments - Wind

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Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Edition; First edition. Physical description; xxxvii, 518 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Revised edition of: Index of musical wind-instrument makers / Lyndesay G. Langwill. 6th ed., 1980. Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-518) and indexes. Previous ed. [i.e. 6th]: published as An index of musical wind-instrument makers / by Lyndesay G. Langwill. - Edinburgh : L.G. Langwill, 1980. Summary; This book is an entirely new work rather than a revision of Lyndsay Langwill's sixth edition. It is the standard work in its field, the most comprehensive work on wind instrument makers in any language and a major reference tool for collectors and researchers. Some features of the New Langwill Index are: Entries for nearly 6500 makers and inventors, active from the beginning until the middle of the 20th century; Nearly 400 representations of maker's marks; An index of makers under workplace, listing over 1000 localities; A comprehensive bibliography of over 600 titles. Subjects; Wind instrument makers - Dictionaries. Wind instrument makers - Biography. Dictionaries. Inventors. Manufacturing. Wind instruments - Making - History. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Dictionary. Illustrated. Index.

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