The Opera Past And Present : An Historical Sketch by William Foster Apthorp
1901. No Edition Remarks. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Ex-libris label. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen and pencil markings to front free endpaper and pastedown. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean.