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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1PREFACE.
3The matter of which this book is composed originally appeared in a series of articles in The Bazaar newspaper, and it has been deemed advisable to republish it in a more permanent form. In preparing this volume for the press, I have carefully revised all the information which was supplied in the original papers, and have made considerable additions to that which had already been given. Although several excellent works, dealing with Fiddles, have been published in this country, the reader will, I believe, find in these pages much that is new, either in the shape of fresh facts or in that of conclusions deduced from them. For some of these facts I am indebted to several of the writers who are mentioned in the course of this book, but I have to take the responsibility attaching to any deductions or arguments which may be found in its pages.
5A work of this class, so far as historical detail is concerned, must be, to a great extent, a compilation formed from its predecessors, and can hardly lay claim to any originality, except in so far as it may be, as above hinted, islanded here and there with corrections, or other results of such observation and research as its
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