British Violin Makers: Classical and Modern, Being a Biographical and Critical Dictionary of British Makers of the Violin from the Foundation of the Classical School to the End of the Nineteenth Century
xii, 248pp, 32pp publisher's ads, numerous black and white photographic plates, in-text illustrations and signatures. Grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine; top text block edge gilt, fore and bottom text block edges untrimmed. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends, bottom front corner a little bumped. Fore and bottom text block edges tanning. Free endpapers tanning; gutters cracked and strained, volume quite loose; pages starting to tan and fox. Two plates loosely laid-in.