Volume 1 of an instruction book on the practice of playing the recorder written by Edgar H. Hunt and Robert Donington and published by Oxford University Press.
A Practical Method for the Recorder: volume 1
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Photograph of the Horniman Museum clock tower during the late stages of its construction, circa 1900
Cabinet card featuring a photograph of Emslie John Horniman on a horse
Photograph of a wreath laying ceremony marking the completion of the restoration of Coombe Cliffe Conservatory at the Horniman Museum in 1989
Black and white medium format negative of boy on bull with post in foreground and a building in the background
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