“A Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe” by Joseph MacDonald; Compiled, 1760/1763; First Published, 1803; A Reprint Now Published by Alexander MacDonald (Glencona, Inverness) (Glasgow: Aird & Coghill, 1927).
The first reissue of the book that started it all.
48 pages comprising: preliminaries (i-xi); treatise (1-37).
Page count doesn’t include paper covers which, in this copy, are detached but present. Otherwise good condition.
Please note that the value of this edition is historical rather than musical: the errors introduced in the first printing and carried over here have been well documented in piping scholarship.
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