Violin Making, First Edition (26 results)

Plastic Comb. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised Edition. A clean unmarked copy in excellent condition. 120 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. 1st edition, 1st printing. Glued binding, illustrated glossy wrappers; 67 pages, line drawing illustrations. CONDITION: AS NEW, binding square and tight, pages crisp and unmarked. CONTENT: Bruce Ossman has refined and simplified the violin making process for the modern craftsperson. This guide to every single step of crafting a violin from start to finish includes full-size pattern and templates, easy to follow instructions, hundreds of detailed illustrations, and the use of only common tools and woods. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vol. XX, No. 7 (July, 1916), Part II. Green cloth, (9.75 x 6.75 inches), 48 pages. Contains article "Early American Violin Makers" by William H. Howe, list of names of old makers and American makers with example of labels. Faint ex-library stamp on upper title page (no other library markings). A rare and invaluable reference.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good 1st edition together with dust jacket. However, this is an ex council library book and has all the associated marks and paraphernalia, etc. It is wrapped in protective plastic film. See photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. CIRCA 1970 FIRST EDITION. Approx. 48 Pages. Card covers are complete, some dust ingrained but generally clean. Stapled booklet is tight. Pages are bright, clean and unmarked. No inscriptions.

Original Wrappers. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. One or two short tears without loss.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. 12mo. 19 cm.x 22 cm. 112pp. With 27 photographs, 17 line drawings and 5 scale diagrams. A very nice copy in dust jacket.

Condition: Good. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (softcover). 12mo (18cm by 12cm), 80pp, 8pp adverts. Text illustrations. Original printed brown card wrappers. The staples in the binding are rusting, and there is some thumbing of the contents; overall, this book is in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Edition originale. Facsimile book first published in 1885. Frontispeace of the author. With upwards of 200 illustrations by the author. Preceded by Ğ An Essay on the Violin and its Position as a Musical Instrument ğ. Included are removable and unfolding plans by this maker of stringed instruments : Ğ Mold an outlines of Stradivari violin ğ and ĞInside mold, cramping bolcks, and outline models for violin of Joseph Guarnerius, 1734, I.H.S.ğ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 113 pgs. Portrait frontis. 4 b/w photo plates. Name to front endpaper with a tiny bit of paper loss at the corner.

1st edition. xvii, 72, [5 (blank)] pp. Many intratextual illustrations. 12" x 9" Light tanning and chipping to DJ edges. Light soiling to rear DJ cover. A VG+ in a VG+ jacket. Beige cloth binding with brown stamped lettering to spine and cover. Beige DJ with brown printed lettering to spine and cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good Plus in very clean blue cloth-covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. Very light 'bumping' to the head/tail of the spine - negligible - no damage just light shelf wear. The dust-jacket has some light surface shelf wear to the covers/corners, but the d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks Near Fine. There is a price label on the front inner flap which has been blacked out by a former owner. The page fore-edges are in 3 light bands in shades of cream/pale tan - the centre line/block was probably printed on slightly different paper stock, but all page edges clean and uniform. Internally NO Inscriptions or marks. 112 pp. Illustrated throughout in b/w with photos, line-drawings, diagrams and plans. "The simple violin and viola (known as The Trapezoid) described in this book has a tone, and indeed a potential, as good as, if not better than that of the conventional violin." . A relatively scarce title. See Images. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9".

Condition: VERY GOOD. 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. 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.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarter red cloth over gray boards, printed title label on spine, (12.5 x 9.5 inches). Limited Numbered First Edition 1/2000 copies. 105 pages; illustrated by 37 tissue guarded plates of classic violins with front, back and side views (24 tipped in Chromolithographs and 13 b&w plates) plus Diagrams. Introduction by Theodore Thomas and Sketch of Royal De Forest Hawley by Albert H. Pitkin. Internally clean and tight, with some light exterior wear, title label rubbed. Presents nicely in clear mylar jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Tall Octavo, 72 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is beige with black lettering. Mild general shelf wear. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Bumping to corners of boards. Rubbing to boards. Minor cocking to spine. Mild foxing to top-edge of text block. Shelved in Case 12. 1411787. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Large 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. 224 pages. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations. Maps. "Explores the craft's rich heritage and defining characteristics during its flourishing in the 18th and 19th centuries--." Includes a 400 entry dictionary which "attempts to include all the known Scottish makers, accompanied by examples of their work." One page list of subscribers. The definitive work on its subject.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 224 pgs. Glossary & Bibliography. b/w photos and facsimiles and outstanding colour photography of rare examples from Scotland's finest makers. Light wear to cloth at the bottom of the spine else a fine copy in dust jacket. (photo) No names or marks.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. English language text. Red cloth white lettered spine with photo illustrated black and maroon boards.56 pages.Lavishley illustrated with fine detailed colour photography. Includes DVD with multimedia contents and sound recording. 11.25 X 18 inches. Near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to. Pp 224. Illustrations. Original cloth. No.105 of an unspecified total number. Virtually as new condition. Postage at cost.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Frontispiece of Violin Construction (illustrator). First Edition. 16 Pp. Fraser's Basic Instructions For Violin-Making. With Fraser's Standard Transmission Letter With His Spiel, With Additional Personalized Typewritten Text Addressed To This Particular Buyer, And Signed In Ink By Fraser At Bottom. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: 0. Erstausgabe dieses schönen, reich illustrierten Katalogs. - Umschlag angestaubt bzw. staubfleckig u. mit kl. Randläsuren bzw. -einrissen. Titel m. Prägestempel. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 3000 4°. Mit zahlr. farb. Abbildungen. 416 S., OLwd. m. illustr. OUmschlag.

Pictorial Softcover. Paperback. Condition: Fine. Antonio Aiello (illustrator). First Edition. Il Museo Della Musica's 2001 "Exhibition of Ancient Instruments" Text in Italian and English. A FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight, collector-worthy copy sans flaws. PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in full color photography with accompanyng descritive captions. 117 pages. LBCMC2.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No. 1st Edition. First blank page has a 2" tear near the spine. Former owners name on this page. Advice for buyers of violins with a listing of makers and examples of labels. Tight and square. Rare. This book is from the estate of Fred Spector. He was a violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for decades.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A limited edition, first edition catalogue of the Hawley violin collection, illustrated with tipped in colour plates of fine violins. Number 336 of 2,000 copies produced.Illustrated with thirty-six plates, the majority of which are tipped in and in colour. Collated, complete.This work describes instruments by Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesu, Nicola Amati, Maggini, Bergonzi, Rogeri, Guadagnini, Joseph filius Andreaa Guarneri, Stainer, and Lupot.â'The Hawley Collection of Violins' was an impressive collection curated by Royal de Forest Hawley, an American collector of fine violins. Following Hawley's death in 1893, the esteemed Chicago-based musical instrument firm Lyon & Healy acquired the collection, cementing their reputation as a leading dealer in the early twentieth century. With the former owner's inscription of Arthur Richardson to the head of the limitation leaf, and a further ink notation to the title page head.The work discusses the evolution and decline of violin-making art in Italy between 1540 and 1800. In the publisher's original cloth backed, paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip and spine label lightly age toned. Light rubbing to board perimeters. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Former owner's inscription to head of limitation leaf, and to title page head. Pages bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good. book.

Small folio (305 x 228 mm). Black-and-white portrait of Royal de Forest Hawley, and 36 mounted plates, of which most in color; printed tissue guards preserved. Original red cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 1399 of 2000 copies. With a fine provenance: From the collection of David W. Young, who bought the "Goding" Amati that is described herein. Young inscribes the front flyleaf: "This rare book purchased from R. Wurlitzer in year 1961, at time I obtained the 'Goding' Amati violin of 1662 from Lyon & Healy. - signed - David W. Young at 18508 Clyde Ave. Homewood, Ill U.S.A." Another similar inscription appears on another flyleaf. The "Goding" Amati is described in the catalogue on p. 48, within the broader historical context of the famous Cremonese violin makers: "The Goding Amati is covered with a coating of magnificent varnish of a golden brown color, the texture of which is soft; and the evenness of skill of its application invokes the admiration of the connoisseur at a glance. It formed a part of the famous James Goding collection, to which the King Joseph Guarneri also belonged." Hawley's collection was a veritable encyclopedia of classical violin making. Lyon & Healy acquired the collection in total after his death in 1893, and published this catalogue, which established their reputation as America's eminent dealer at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The remainder of the catalogue includes images and texts about instruments by Stradivari (the Healy and the Earl), Guarneri del Gesu (King Joseph and Jarnowick), Maggini, Bergonzi, Rogeri, Guadagnini, Joseph filius Andrea Guarneri, Stainer, and Lupot. A very good, if slightly shaken, copy, spine label worn, and with some wear at corners, a few short marginal tears and occasional light handling creases.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Floridly INSCRIBED in belletristic script by the author in black ink on first blank page following ffep: "With compliments of the author", with paraph below. RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION, with 1881 to both title page & copyright page & no later printing details. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait with author's facsimile signature below. Contains biography of George Gemunder, appendix to biography, plus preface. Full details of sections as follows: Progress of the Structure of Violins - Their Critics; A Treatise Upon the Manner in Which Master-Violins are Ruined; Of the Causes Why the Judging of Violins and the Repairing of Them is Less Understood Than Other Art Productions; On the Preservation of Violins; To Illustrate How Violins of My Construction May be Compared With the Old Italian Master-Violins; Art Exhibitions - How Violins are Examined and Judged; Note About Dilettanti Violin Makers; Good Luck and Art, and Remarks About Violins; Of the Manner of Playing - Treatment of Bridges etc.; Circular Which Accompanied my "Emperor Violin" in the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 - An Interesting Explanation About Violins and of the Science of Tone; A Reply to Mr. E. Schelle's Critique Concerning the Violins in the Exhibition of Vienna in the Leipsig "Neue Zeitschrift fur Musick, No. 52, 1873". Includes erratum slip tipped in at rear. "George Gemünder (1816-1899) was a German-born violin maker who worked in the United States. Gemünder was born at Ingelfingen, in the kingdom of Wurtemburg. With his brother August & others, he pioneered the construction of quality violins in the United States. He was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in Paris, & moved to the United States in 1847, establishing himself in Boston. In 1851 his violins won a medal at the World's Fair in London. In 1852 he moved to Astoria, now part of New York City. Vuillaume, & other European makers violin makers often applied chemicals to their instruments to produce a pseudo-antique look & some believed a desirable tone quality. However, Gemünder felt that wood so treated would soon lose its resonance & render treated instruments worthless. Gemünder succeeded in making excellent violins without chemical treatments. His violins are highly regarded for their volume, power, balance, & overall tone, & have been favorable compared to the work of the best old masters. He was unusually successful in the model & finish of his instruments, & especially the varnish. He so faithfully reproduced the distinctive characteristics of old Italian violins that those made by him are not infrequently mistaken for genuine Cremonas. One called the 'Kaiser', finished in 1873 & sent to the Vienna exhibition, was pronounced an Italian violin of the classic period by judges who thought it impossible to produce so fine a tone from a new instrument. Gemünder also received medals from exhibitions held in Paris (1867), New York (1870), Vienna (1873), Philadelphia (1876 'hors concours'), Amsterdam (1883), Nice (1883-1884), London (1884), New Orleans (1884-1885 'hors concours'), & London (1885). He wrote a book called George Gemünder's Progress in Violin Making (Astoria, New York, 1881), to which he prefixed an autobiographical sketch." Bound in publisher's original dark green pebbled cloth with bright gilt lettering to front board & spine, blind-ruled borders & blind-stamped floral design to both boards, pale green endpapers. Boards lightly soiled, faint lower margin staining, two former owners contemporary ink names (one to upper edge of title page & one to outer margin of first text page), bookseller's small ink stamp to front pastedown, mild foxing to endpapers, faint mustiness, small splash stains to top edge of book block, otherwise overall a GOOD to VERY GOOD nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. Collated & complete. 108pp. Scarce signed copy of the first edition. EXTREMELY RARE. Signed by Author(s).