Object details
Object number
S.G.S.1.34
Creator(s)
Title
Violin-Making, As It Was and Is: Being a Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional
Date
1885
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
London
Binding Description
Brown textile binding with gold and black embossed title and decoration on front cover and spine
Description
xix + [3], 366 + [1] pages ; 8°
Dimensions
23 x 15 x 3.5 cm (9 1/16 x 5 7/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in black ink (on half-title page): Dear Mrs. Gardiner / I cannot offer you this book of / mine in the hope that it will either point / a moral or adorn a tale, I cannot even / hope that it will interest you apart from its "personality", but I trust that / it may explain - shall I say "an indiv - / iduality" - or shoud I use your term - / "a pose"? / Always most sincerely, yours / Ed. Heron Allen / Boston 23rd Jan.y. 1887.
Inscribed in black ink (on frontispiece, below illustration): Always most sincerely, Yours / Ed. Heron Allen
Provenance
Gift from British lawyer and scholar Edward Heron-Allen to Isabella Stewart Gardner (1861-1943) on 23 January 1887.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Gallery
Short Gallery
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