Musical Instruments: An Illustrated History from Antiquity to the Present

240 pp. Tightly bound. Two corners are lightly bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good, price clipped dust jacket. NOTE: there is one 1" x 3" area on the front paste down, under the dust jacket flap, that show old sticker residue and a surface abrasion from the removal of a previous name tag. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.