Publisher: Publisher: Hinrichsen Edition, London – Printed in the Netherlands for Robert Stockwell Ltd. 1965
No. H-164
Approx. 10" by 7.5" -- 109 pages

A distinguished study by noted musicologist Henry George Farmer, author of Military Music (1930). This volume, Handel’s Kettledrums and Other Papers on Military Music, gathers Farmer’s research on the evolution of martial instrumentation and its cultural significance, with particular attention to Handel’s ceremonial kettledrums.

This edition features a crisp typographic layout and scholarly dedication to W. Y. Baldry, O.B.E. and the Society for Army Historical Research. Bound in red cloth with gilt spine lettering, complete with its original cream dust jacket, this copy is clean and bright - an excellent example for collectors of music history, military traditions, or early twentieth‑century British scholarship.Both Jacket and book in near mint condition.

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