Comprising the original limited edition and a later re-issue in smaller format: A. J. Hipkins, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: HISTORIC, RARE AND UNIQUE, illus. with lithographic plates after W. Gibb (Edinburgh: Black, 1888) Edition of 1040 copies, double folio, three-quarter leather, cloth, the binding in poor condition, text with some foxing and other faults; and the same, 1921, with the blindstamp of famed cellist Gregor Piatigorsky on half-title, folio, double cloth binding, closed tears on the spine.