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The Fiddle Fancier's Guide: A Manual of Information Regarding Violins …, 1892
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1PREFACE.
3The Reader who may be interested in the subject of this Guide will, I hope, find the contents of the book to be of some value to him—how much, if any, more than usual, is not for me to say. I think, however, I may, without egotism, state that there is hardly a maker of any importance, from the earliest to the latest, about whom, or about whose work, something fresh in the matter of descriptive detail may not be gleaned from these pages, while a very large number of the more ordinary class of craftsmen have had certain points of their work briefly elucidated in a manner calculated to be helpful for purposes of identification.
5Everything in the book has been, to employ a common phrase, brought up to date, and although, as a matter of duty to my readers and to myself, I have, in writing The Fiddle Fancier's Guide, consulted and collated afresh, with great advantage, every source of information known to me, I think I may yet fairly claim that the results which have been tabulated throughout, are very largely those of my own observation and practical experience, and where these have failed me, the names of the authors on whose assistance I have drawn, will be found duly recorded in the body of the work.
7J. M. FLEMING.
9London, 1st October, 1892.
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