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Scan 8
Notice of Anthony Stradivari, 1864
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1AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
3PASSIONATELY fond of his art, like every man of sterling worth, M. Vuillaume has conceived a degree of admiration, amounting almost to devotion, for Anthony Stradivarius, the celebrated violin-maker of Cremona, whose long career was wholly dedicated to seeking and realising perfection in the construction of bow-instruments.
5After having spent a part of his life in studying the principles which guided this great artist in his labours, M. Vuillaume wished to raise a monument to his memory, and took several journeys into Italy, for the sole object of collecting the requisite materials. On becoming possessed of these, he entrusted them to me, and requested my co-operation for his truly reverential work.
7Although foreign to the habitual nature of my studies, this occupation presented much of interest to me, like everything that concerns the art to which I have devoted my life. Enlightened by the experience
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