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THE HAWLEY COLLECTION OF VIOLINS, with a History of Their Makers & a Brief Review of the Evolution & Decline of the Art of Violin Making in Italy, 1540-1800.
by Thomas. Theodore, introduction
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in paper covered boards with red cloth spine - rubbing to spine and corners and edges of boards, paper spine label and
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago:: Lyon & Healy,, 1904.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in paper covered boards with red cloth spine - rubbing to spine and corners and edges of boards, paper spine label and some tissue guards missing. . Limited, numbered first edition. Introduction by Theodore Thomas. Includes 37 tissue guarded illustrations of classic violins (the Healy and the Earl by Stradivari and others) with front, back and side views - 24 are tipped in Chromoithographs in color and 13 black and white plates. Diagrams. #743 from a printing limited to 2000 numbered copies. Large format. 105 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75793
- Title
- THE HAWLEY COLLECTION OF VIOLINS, with a History of Their Makers & a Brief Review of the Evolution & Decline of the Art of Violin Making in Italy, 1540-1800.
- Author
- Thomas. Theodore, introduction
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in paper covered boards with red cloth spine - rubbing to spine and corners and edges of boards, paper spine label and
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lyon & Healy,
- Place of Publication
- Chicago:
- Date Published
- 1904.
- Keywords
- stradivarius,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music and Musicians;
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