The Hawley Collection of Violins with a History of Their Makers and a Brief Review of the Evolution and Decline of the Art of Violin-Making in Italy 1540-1800
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Lyon & Healy. Good with no dust jacket. 1904. Limited Edition. #1051 of 2000 copies. Red cloth backed gray boards. Spine cloth foxed. Paper title label to spine is heavily toned and scuffed. Light edgewear, moderate scuffing and rubbing, and bumped spine ends and corners. Light water staining along lower edges of front board and text block. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned. Slight rubbing to front pastedown. Tipped-in color plates of the violins from various perspectives, with tissue guards. One tissue guard has lightly chipped edge that stands proud of text block. No ownership marks, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. An important book on violin making and the history of violins. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 105 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9594
- Title
- The Hawley Collection of Violins with a History of Their Makers and a Brief Review of the Evolution and Decline of the Art of Violin-Making in Italy 1540-1800
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lyon & Healy
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Violins, Violin, Making, History, Italian, Italy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music / Classical;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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