Dictionnaire Des Luthiers Anceins et Modernes. Critique et Documentaire

xiv + 240 pp + plates. Half-leather & marbled boards; marbled endpapers. Illustrated with photographs of violins on 32 plates hors texte; 30 plates of violin makers’ labels & facsimiles; frontispiece engraving. Front hinge almost detached, needing repair; spine rubbed and faded; leather stained with small bruise and worn at foot of spine; marbled boards peeling on bottom corner and split over the edge of the other; moisture stain to prelims and rear matter; foxing throughout, marginally affecting plates but not illustrations. Text in French. Rare!