Violin-Making as it Was and Is: Being a Historical, Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur And Professional

Hardcover. Brown cloth with violin cover and spine vignette gilt; title and spine lettering gilt; rebacked with new endpapers. xix, 366 pp. Over 200 illustrations by the author, including woodcuts and full-page illustrations in text, and frontispiece plus 6 plates hors du texte, some folding. Missing frontispiece and two of the six plates (only 4 present, three of them folding); ink name on original front free endpaper (still bound in), and on half-title; some tape to folding plates; but minimal foxing to this nice, tight, bright copy with otherwise bright interior.