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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Published: 1904. First Edition. Inscribed by author. Inscribed in book and reverse of box to his daughter "Bronnie" Roxelana Brondeg Maria Meredith-Morris. DESCRIPTION: Boxed edition in black [faux?] leather with five ridged spine decorated with gilt violins to panels. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Clean sharp leather. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Author inscription to his daughter to fly page. Foxing to half title, preface, contents, list of illustrations and corresponding rear pages. Spotting to text block edges with some spotting and foxing to some page margins. DJ Condition: Good: Wear to all corners and edges of both sections of box. One corner is cracked but held in place by webbing. Author inscription to rear of box dated 1907 Pages 248. Size: 22.5cm by 14.5cm. PROVENANCE: Bookplate: David J.F. [James Fergus] Cromie. Inscription: William Meredith-Morris. William Meredith-Morris(1867-1921). Born at Tycanol farm in the parish of Pontfaen in 1867. As a boy he was known simply as William Morris, and it is not clear when or why he adopted the additional middle name Meredith. He attended the local village school in Cwm Gwaun until the age of twelve and the grammar school in Haverfordwest until he was nearly sixteen. The family were members of Jabez Baptist Chapel in Cwm Gwaun. After finishing school he returned home, working on the farm and began preaching. At the age of seventeen he began to preach locally, with a view to training for the ministry and was invited to preach at Jabez. He was accepted as a candidate for the ) ministry, preaching in a number of local chapels in order to have his application countersigned by three other ministers. In 1887 was admitted to the Baptist College in Haverfordwest and then University College in Aberystwyth. He subsequently settled in south Pembrokeshire as the minister of Pisgah Baptist Chapel, Cresswell Quay, and married a local girl, Mary Phillips. After three years he left the Baptists and was accepted into the ministry of the Anglican Church, leaving Pembrokeshire to spend the rest of his life working in Glamorgan. He was curate at Treherbert from 1895 to 1899, at Llangynwyd from 1899 to 1908, and finally vicar of Clydach Vale, where he remained until his death in 1921. He is perhaps best known for his books on violins and violin-making (1904, 1920). Inscribed by author.