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Synopsis

With 12 plates in colour and 21 illustrations in black and white. (britain in pictures).

Item Description

8vo 9x 6.5 inches. 46 + [2] pp. Bound in original grey and white stiff pictorial boards, in matching dust wrapper which has a little edge wear and chips with some neatly repaired tears; otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 12 colour plates and by black and white text figures. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. A volume in Collins's Britain in Pictures series published during the war between 1941 and 1945. An historical account of various types of English music, by Walter James Turner (1889-1946), Australian born poet and biographer of musicians, who also served as general editor of the Britain in Pictures series.