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The violin and its music, 1885
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1RECENTLY PUBLISHED.
3NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION,
4QUARTO, ABOUT 500 PAGES, PRICE, 25/-
6WITH UPWARDS OF SIXTY ENGRAVINGS.
8The Violin:
9ITS FAMOUS MAKERS AND THEIR IMITATORS,
10BY
11GEORGE HART.
13Opinions of the Press on the Original Edition, 1875.
15"Mr. Hart is an authority on this subject who commands general respect, and the volume in which he has embodied the results of his experience and researches will be gratefully received by all who take an interest in what he justly calls the leading instrument. . . . In the history of the instrument, as well of the strange adventures of some famous makers and specimens of it, there is moreover a touch of seductive romance. . . . Mr. Hart takes the various schools in turn, analysing the characteristics of the chief makers."—Saturday Review.
17"The title of this book does not fairly indicate its interesting contents. The volume is valuable to the violinist; it is instructive for the amateur; and miscellaneous matter may be found in it to fix the attention of the general reader."—Athenaeum.
19"The book is as nearly exhaustive as possible, far exceeding any previous attempt of the kind."—Academy.
21"Mr. Hart possesses a rare knowledge of Italian Violins, and the practical parts of his book are for the most part interesting and original. . . . The special feature of Mr. Hart's volume is the combined application of photography and wood-engraving to his illustrations."—Times.
23"Mr. Hart's book is enjoyable not only to the professional but to the amateur, and it is a most exhaustive account of an extensive subject."—New York Herald.
25"We must award the highest praise to Mr. Hart for this very satisfactory result of what must evidently have been the labour of many years."—Musical Times.
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