Compleat Instructions for the Bassoon or Fagotto: Museum Object and Cultural History
Compleat Instructions for the Bassoon or Fagotto: date made: ca 1770. Object Name: booklet. Physical Description: paper (overall material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This instruction booklet, Compleat Instructions for the Bassoon or Fagotto, was published by Longman, Lukey and Co. in London, England, about 1770. It is incomplete and lacks a title page together with pages 1 and 2.
This booklet is examined in the The Galpin Society Journal , February 1964, Vol. 17, pages 103-105.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1770
- Object Name: booklet
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: booklet: 11 in x 11 1/8 in x 1/4 in; 27.94 cm x 28.2575 cm x .635 cm
- Measurements: frontispiece: 10 7/8 in x 11 1/16 in x 1/8 in; 27.6225 cm x 28.09875 cm x .3175 cm
- place made: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
- ID Number: MI.66.014.01
- catalog number: MI*66.014.01
- accession number: 272250
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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