Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Five volumes, complete. Volume I: 1904 - Volume II: 1906 - Volume III: 1909 - Volume IV: 1909 - Volume V: 1910. Blue cloth with gilt titles, black decoration, gilt top edges. All volumes have light shelf-wear, including rubbing to spine, light edgewear, bumped spine tips and fore-edge corners. Gilt in publisher's name at spine tips rubbed thin on all volumes, though always legible; gilt sharp and bright at spine heads and front panels. Spines square. Bindings sound. Tissue guard over volume one frontis is split from gutter at bottom half, still holding; volume two has a square of browning from where a newspaper clipping was folded in; volume four has a prior owner's name at top margin of half title. Interiors else clean, pages toned, texts unmarked.