Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 2

Notice of Anthony Stradivari, 1864

32 lines. Read by computer on 24 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.

1NOTICE
2OF
3ANTHONY STRADIVARI,
4THE CELEBRATED VIOLIN-MAKER,
5KNOWN BY THE NAME OF
6STRADIVARIUS:
7PRECEDED BY
8HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL RESEARCHES
9ON THE ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATIONS
10OF BOW INSTRUMENTS;
11AND FOLLOWED BY
12A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BOW,
13AND
14REMARKS ON FRANCIS TOURTE,
15THE AUTHOR OF ITS FINAL IMPROVEMENTS.
16BY F. J. FÉTIS,
17CHAPEL MASTER TO THE KING OF THE BELGIANS AND DIRECTOR OF THE
18CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AT BRUSSELS.
20TRANSLATED
21(WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR)
22BY
23JOHN BISHOP
24OF CHELTENHAM.
26London:
27ROBERT COCKS AND CO.
28MUSIC PUBLISHERS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN,
29H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES,
30AND HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY NAPOLEON III.
311864.

The computer misreads some letters and numbers. Where a name matters to you, read the scan.