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De fidiculis bibliographia: being an attempt towards a bibliography of the violin and all other instruments played with a bow in ancient and modern times, 1890
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1referred to, notes of Novels, Squibs, Lampoons, Poems, Newspapers, Dramas, Tracts and Chap Books, Instruction Books published prior to 1800, Biographical Advertisements, Catalogues of Violin Collections and Sales, Children's Books, Patent Specifications of all countries, Proceedings of Societies, Short Stories, Songs, Trade Catalogues, Book and Dictionary Extracts, and even Advertisements, embodying information on the Violin.
3I promise largely, but I shall spare no pains to perform my promises to the letter. My work aims at being a reference-book as nearly complete as any work of this kind can be, and as such I offer it to that large section of the public which is interested in the Violin.
5It will be easily understood that in the preparation of a work of this scope, however diligently and for however long one may have laboured to attain perfection and completeness, one's failure is continually brought before one by the discovery of some hitherto unnoticed work on the subject. It will also be obvious to my readers and co-workers that search as I may, in all the private and public libraries to which I have gained access, some works remain known to me only by references to them in other works, or in bibliographies, copies of which works I have never been able to find for purposes of collation and description. To provide as far as possible for these contingencies this work is printed on one side of the paper only, and with every instalment I propose to give a loose sheet containing the titles of such works as are known to me, but that I have not been able to see myself, and on its conclusion, and at intervals thereafter I shall print supplements containing descrip-
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