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Booth, William

born 1779

As printed

  1. A dictionary of violin makers (1896)

    As printed on this page: “Booth, William, b. 1779; believed to have died 1857 or 1858. At first a hairdresser, but 1809 commenced to make and repair violins. Label: “Wm. Booth, maker, Leeds, 1828.””

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  2. A dictionary of violin makers (n.d.)

    As printed on this page: “Booth, William, b. 1779; believed to have died 1857 or 1858. At first a hairdresser, but 1809 commenced to make and repair violins. Label: “Wm. Booth, maker, Leeds, 1828.””

    p. 11

  3. The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (1884)

    Booth, William, 1779, Leeds.

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    2. Bolles, ——. An early maker of Lutes and Viols.
    4. Booth, William, 1779, Leeds.
    5. Booth, ——, son of the above, Leeds.
    6. Boucher, ——, London, 1764.
    7. Brown, James, London, born 1770, died 1834. Worked with Thomas Kennedy.

Named in 3 books printed between 1884 and 1896. Read by software from scans of those pages, not yet checked by a person against the page. Entries from 3 books stand under this name, and the software judged them likely the same person. Tell us if that is wrong and we will split the record.

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Record note

What this record rests on is The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (1884), naming this maker and nothing more. Nothing else on this site confirms it and no claim has been invented beyond that naming — not established, until someone can tell us more.

What the books say

Places and dates of work
Booth, William, 1779, Leeds. reported1
Places and dates of work
As printed on this page: “Booth, William, b. 1779; believed to have died 1857 or 1858. At first a hairdresser, but 1809 commenced to make and repair violins. Label: “Wm. Booth, maker, Leeds, 1828.”” reported1
Born (date and place)
Born 1779. As printed in the cited source: “Booth, William, b. 1779” reported1
Places and dates of work
As printed on this page: “Booth, William, b. 1779; believed to have died 1857 or 1858. At first a hairdresser, but 1809 commenced to make and repair violins. Label: “Wm. Booth, maker, Leeds, 1828.”” reported1

How the pages were read

4 of the 4 lines here were read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words), not by a person looking at the page image. 1 of them rests on a section heading above a list of names, not on a trade word printed on its own line: “ENGLISH MAKERS.”.

Notes

  1. Read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words, or a typed transcription), not by a person looking at the page image. ↩

The books behind this record

This record draws on 3 sources, all read from machine text. The count weighs how well each source was read, not just how many are cited. A stack of half-read sources does not outweigh one page read properly.

  1. Hart, George, 1839-1891, The violin: its famous makers and their imitators (London, Dulau and co. [etc.], 1884). archive.org, violinitsfamousm84hart. https://archive.org/details/violinitsfamousm84hart.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  2. Stainer, C. (Cecie), 1867-1937, A dictionary of violin makers (London: Novello, n.d.). archive.org, dictionaryofviol00stai. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviol00stai.machine textcited for 2 linessource record

    p. 11

  3. Stainer, C. (Cecie), 1867-1937, A dictionary of violin makers (London ; New York: Novello, Ewer, 1896). archive.org, dictionaryofviol00stai_0. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviol00stai_0.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

    p. 11