Musical Instruments: Historic, Rare, and Unique by A.J. Hipkins
Author: A.J. Hipkins
Illustrated by William Gibb
Publisher: A. and C. Black, LTD., 1945, London
Page Count: 123
Hardcover
Sometimes a book is more than a book. Here the story is the publication date, 1945, or rather the republication of a book first issued in 1888. World War 2 has just ended but the UK would suffer food rationing for 7 more years, and quality paper for books would also be rationed. Why, then, make one of the first post war books an oversize, lovingly illustrated reprint of old musical instruments? Could it be that the trauma of the 6 years of war, not to mention the shattering memories of WW1, drove an intense desire for an earlier and presumably simpler time? A time of Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen and wandering minstrels? Isn’t it the same instinct that drove the recent Gen X-Y-Z interest in Gregorian chants by still active monasteries?
Whatever the drive the beneficent outcome was a lovely book. The illustrations are wonderful, and even the non-scholar will enjoy the discussion of the instruments and their role in the music of their times.
Condition: Very good in all aspects. Some fading on certain pages but no cuts or big bumps. All plates are present and in fine color.
Author: A.J. Hipkins
Illustrated by William Gibb
Publisher: A. and C. Black, LTD., 1945, London
Page Count: 123
Hardcover
Sometimes a book is more than a book. Here the story is the publication date, 1945, or rather the republication of a book first issued in 1888. World War 2 has just ended but the UK would suffer food rationing for 7 more years, and quality paper for books would also be rationed. Why, then, make one of the first post war books an oversize, lovingly illustrated reprint of old musical instruments? Could it be that the trauma of the 6 years of war, not to mention the shattering memories of WW1, drove an intense desire for an earlier and presumably simpler time? A time of Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen and wandering minstrels? Isn’t it the same instinct that drove the recent Gen X-Y-Z interest in Gregorian chants by still active monasteries?
Whatever the drive the beneficent outcome was a lovely book. The illustrations are wonderful, and even the non-scholar will enjoy the discussion of the instruments and their role in the music of their times.
Condition: Very good in all aspects. Some fading on certain pages but no cuts or big bumps. All plates are present and in fine color.
Author: A.J. Hipkins
Illustrated by William Gibb
Publisher: A. and C. Black, LTD., 1945, London
Page Count: 123
Hardcover
Sometimes a book is more than a book. Here the story is the publication date, 1945, or rather the republication of a book first issued in 1888. World War 2 has just ended but the UK would suffer food rationing for 7 more years, and quality paper for books would also be rationed. Why, then, make one of the first post war books an oversize, lovingly illustrated reprint of old musical instruments? Could it be that the trauma of the 6 years of war, not to mention the shattering memories of WW1, drove an intense desire for an earlier and presumably simpler time? A time of Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen and wandering minstrels? Isn’t it the same instinct that drove the recent Gen X-Y-Z interest in Gregorian chants by still active monasteries?
Whatever the drive the beneficent outcome was a lovely book. The illustrations are wonderful, and even the non-scholar will enjoy the discussion of the instruments and their role in the music of their times.
Condition: Very good in all aspects. Some fading on certain pages but no cuts or big bumps. All plates are present and in fine color.