Late Victorian Music and Science. [?Andrew (The Rev. John], ...

Hammer

£190

Late Victorian Music and Science. [?Andrew (The Rev. John], Shells from Music's Ocean!/Pendulograph, s.l., s.n., n.d. [c. 1885], an album of 62 tipped-in chromolithographs, a handful of the illustrations/diagrams are 'Flowers from Music's Garden!', recto pastedown with a tipped-in explanatory letterpress printed on a different stock of paper, split gutter but holding, contemporary green pictorial cloth, with some faults, and the ticket: M.W. & Co/No. 6393/London, 4to, [&] an Edwardian twin-country house visitors' book, inscribed with the guests of Bitteswell Hall, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, and South Walsham Hall, Norfolk, probably during the occupancy of Major Robert Herbert Heath Jary (1830-1920), some blank leaves, original red straight-grain morocco, custom gilt with 'handwriting', some rubbing and losses, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, (2). 

The pendulograph (now commonly called harmonograph) was a drawing machine with attached pendulums tuned to musical frequencies, to produce unique spiral designs. The Reverend John Andrew of Belfast, Ireland, was a member of the clergy who was highly interested in the fields of music and science.