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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1has exerted himself to carry out my views with a zest rarely paralleled.
3In giving a Sketch of the Progress of the Violin, I have endeavoured to touch lightly on the most interesting points relating thereto. To have omitted mention of this branch of the subject would, I felt, have rendered my task incomplete.
5The Anecdotal portion will, I hope, be found to contain much that is interesting. The anecdotes relating to my own vocation, I have endeavoured to set forth with as much advantage as my power of narrative would permit; and those which I have selected from various sources have been such as I deemed congenial to the subject, and least likely to be generally known.
7Having rendered you some account of my task, it now only remains for me to subscribe myself,
9Yours faithfully,
10THE AUTHOR
1214, Princes Street,
13(now 28, Wardour Street),
14Leicester Square, W.
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