Stoke’s Memory-Aiding Pocket Key-Board, Piano, Organ and Harmonium.36 pp.Illustrated with 3 in-text wood engravings and a 140 x 1155 mm foldout out lithographic ‘keyboard‘ printed in red and black and backed with linen.12mo., 140 x 90 mm, bound in publisher’s yellow pebbled cloth.London: Houlston & Sons, 1884.
Third Edition.From the preface; ‘Children who have no sensitiveness, and grumble-proofs adults bent upon their own improvement regardless of other people’s discomfiture, may blunder away, and ding-dong unceasingly in spite of all complaints or remonstrance’s; but the thoughtful and timid are constantly wishing they could practice without being heard.’Enter Stoke’s Memory-Aiding Pocket Key-Board, offering the ‘thoughtful and timid’ a chance to learn the piano too!
A fine copy.Surprisingly rare with OCLC locating just one copy of this edition in the US at Princeton and a copy of the First Edition at Yale.
