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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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1Section 1b.
3TRADE CATALOGUES.
5It would be obviously absurd to attempt to record all the catalogues that are periodically issued by firms of violin-makers and dealers, though to the student of the violin family the catalogues issued by Messrs. W. E. Hill & Sons, Mr. George Withers, Mr. Edward Withers, MM. Gand and Bernardel, and MM. Chanot, Chardon et Cie of Paris, and a host of the other leaders of the violin trade, make a most interesting study, a study especially valuable if made steadily and chronologically. In these publications it is most interesting to trace the gradual rise in the value of the instruments of the great Italian, German, and French schools during (say) the last fifteen years. The violins of Stradivarius which were priced 250l. and 300l. in 1875, have reappeared from time to time in successively issued catalogues at prices that have reached 1500l. and 2000l., and so, in proportion, has it been with the instruments of less repute, but, perhaps, doubtfully inferior ex-
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