204pp, with many plate illustrations showing double basses. Plum cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth a little worn, moderately rubbed at corners and spine tips, slightly sunned spine. Internally remarkably bright, neat, clean and tight.
The last of Raymond Elgar's three important works on the double bass, Looking at the Double Bass is a catalogue of double bass makers with over 100 pictures of finely crafted instruments, with notes on double bass makers.
