Hand Gymnastics by Ridley Prentice

Hand Gymnastics

Music Primers

by Ridley Prentice

Novello, Ewer & Co., c1891, illustrative line drawings throughout hardcover with illustrated boards and brown cloth binding

Good Condition, pages age-toned, edge and shelf wear with rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, small tears to bottom of spine, stamp to preface page, (see photographs)

From the Preface:
"The aim in this little book has been to sketch out a course of gymnastics suitable for use in schools and classes.  I have tried, on the one hand, to render it so complete that the various sets of muscles in the wrist, the hand, the fingers, and to a certain extent in the arm also, should receive due development.  On the other hand, I have kept constantly in view the necessity of avoiding any exercise in which there could be the slightest chance of danger owing to carelessness or misunderstanding of the directions given."