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Book 794 – Musical Machines and Living Dolls by Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier

$ 12.13

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    Description

    Up for sale is a book titled
    Musical Machines and Living Dolls
    by Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier. During his lifetime, the great honorable Murtogh D. Guinness (1913-2002) painstakingly and with obvious glee assembled one of the world’s finest collections of mechanical musical instruments and automata. His perceptive connoisseurship resulted in acquisitions of unparalleled aesthetic and historical value. The beautiful, ingenious, fascinating, and even mysterious machines he so carefully gathered together provide evidence of a once-common form of popular-culture almost unknown know. This book showcases the pieces in Guinness’s collection. 143 pages. Hard cover. Copyright 2011. Mint condition. – Book 794