The Violin:

ITS FAMOUS MAKERS AND THEIR

IMITATORS,

BY

GEORGE HART.

WITH

NUMEROUS WOOD ENGRAVINGS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS OF
THE WORKS OF STRADIUARIUS, GUARNErius,

AMATI, AND OTHERS.

"To perfect that wonder of travel-the locomotive-has perhaps not required
the expenditure of more mental strength and application, than to perfect that
wonder of music-the Violin."
W. E. GLADSTONE.

London:

DULAU AND CO., 37, SOHO SQUARE, W.;

SCHOTT AND CO., 159, REGENT STREET.

DEDICATION.

Enscribed to the Admirers of the Leading Enstrument at Home and Abroad.

MY FRIENDS,

For some time I have been in a state of doubt as to which course to pursue-whether to follow the usual custom, and address the reader in a Preface, or to combine my prefatory remarks with a Dedication. It will be seen that I have chosen the latter method. I am aware that inscriptions in connection with books are no longer in vogue; the necessity for them has happily long since passed away. In these free press days, though the writer of a book be the most obscure individual in the paths of literature, yet his pages will not lack readers, always providing they are worth perusal. Though it may appear that I am falling back upon an old custom in inscribing to you the results of

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