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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. In 3 Volumes. Year 1903. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The present Work furnishes the Second Published Department (COMPASS being the First) of the author’s intended entire Treatise on the Structure &c. of the Organ. Several of such Departments (though not including any Bibliographical one) have already appeared in the pages of the English Mechanic but written on a too complicated (a Gradal-Alphabetical) Plan now discarded. The Structure of the Organ is a subject so large in its extent and at the same time so compara-tively limited as to the interest which it excites that no really Complete Work thereon has ever been written in any language; and very possibly never will be so. The Departments just mentioned as having been issued in the English Mechanic constitute perhaps the most thorough treatment that those branches of the subject have ever received: but these as will be seen on a reference to that Journal cover but a quite small portion of the Instrument. The Treatise of which the present Work forms a Department is undoubtedly even more nearly exhaustive so far as it has gone; but this as is equally obvious is but a very short distance. (LL)