SOUND AND SPACE IN RENAISSANCE VENICE. Architecture, Music, Acoustics.

First edition, first printing. Advance review copy. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers and 148 colour and black and white photographic plates throughout. Publisher's notice loosely laid in. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with some bumping to the spine tips and board edges. The contents are clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which has a short closed tear to the rear flap fold and is otherwise without fading or loss. Not price-clipped (priced at £30.00 on the laid-in publisher's notice).

'The focus of this fascinating study is the direct relationship between architectural design and sacred music in Renaissance Venice. [...] This book combines historical research into the architectural and liturgical traditions of a dozen Venetian churches with the results of a parallel series of scientific surveys of the acoustic properties of the chosen buildings' (publisher's blurb).