From an edition limited to 1500 copies, this being No. 374. 166pp, with many black and white plate illustrations depicting violins and their constituent parts. In brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration on the front panel and gilt titles on the spine. 4to. Cloth very gently rounded at corners and ends of a sunned spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A very hard to find title.
A thorough, authoritative and handsomely produced volume on the history of violin-making in Belgium and Holland, written by master luthier Guillaume MAx Moller Jr.