The Highland Bagpipe: Its History, Literature, and Music, With some account of the Traditions, Superstitions, and Anecdotes relating to The Instrument and Its Tunes

by W. L Manson

£250 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner, 1901. Bagpipes FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 18cm , pp.xvi; 9-420. Complete with 26 illustrations, both in-text and to plates. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. Top edge gilt, with brown-coated endpapers. Black ink ownership to half-title, dated 1904. Occasional heavy pencil underlining and a few notes to text, with light toning and spotting throughout, and a

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