Scan 369
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
24 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 301. See the scan on archive.org.
1made Violins that his name might be of immortal memory.
3 Made by John Delany,
4 In order to perpetuate his memory in future ages.
5 Dublin. 1808.
6 Liberty to all the world one of two readings
7 Liberty to all the world one of two readings
8 black and white.
10DENNIS, Jesse, London, 1805.
11DEVEREUX, John, Melbourne. When in England he worked with B. Simon Fendt.
12DICKINSON, Edward, London, 1750. Made instruments of average merit. The model is high.
14 Edward Dickinson,
15 Maker, at the Harp and Crown in the Strand,
16 near Exeter Change,
17 London. 17—
19DICKESON, John, 1750-80, a native of Stirling. He would seem to have lived in various places, some instruments dating from London and some from Cambridge. He was an excellent workman, and chiefly copied Amati. His work much resembles that of Cappa.
21DITTON, London, about 1700. Mention is made of an instrument by this maker in Tom Britton's Catalogue.
23DODD, Thomas, son of Edward Dodd, of Sheffield. He was not a maker of Violins. Numerous instruments bear his name, but they
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