London Sampson Low & Marston 1905

vol 1, 600pp, vol 2, 760pp including index and typographical errata etc. numerous bw illustrations, 15 bw plates, tissue guarded frontis piece of the author in volume one, 4to. 33x25cm Red cloth, teg. Cloth edges a little bumped and spine faded a little else good copy. Exhaustive study of organ building. George Ashdown Audsley (1838-1925) was born in Scotland and originally apprenticed to architects A & W Reid in his birth town of Elgin. Audsley along with his brother is mostly remembered for publications on architecture and decoration. Throughout his working life he was interested in design of organs and his book is a massive study which is still considered the foundation of 20th century designs for organs, ranging between pipe organs and smaller types. Hard to find.