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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1DEDICATION
2BELONGING TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION, 1875.
4Inscribed to the Admirers of the Leading Instrument at Home and Abroad.
6MY FRIENDS,
7For some time I have been in a state of doubt as to which course to pursue—whether to follow the usual custom, and address the reader in a Preface, or to combine my prefatory remarks with a Dedication. It will be seen that I have chosen the latter method. I am aware that inscriptions in connection with books are no longer in vogue; the necessity for them has happily long since passed away. In these free press days, though the writer of a book be the most obscure individual in the paths of literature, yet his pages will not lack readers, always providing they are worth perusal. Though it may appear that I am falling back upon an old custom in inscribing to you the results of my leisure hours, I do so simply because the subject is one which interests but a section of society in this instance, and that section is yourselves.
9In placing these pages before you, I must admit that I feel
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