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Violin-Making As It Was and Is

author Edward Heron-Allen (London, 1861 - 1943, Sussex)

publisher Ward, Lock & Co. (established London, 1800)

printer Hazell, Watson & Viney (active Aylesbury, 1839 - 1991)

subject Andrea Amati (Italian, about 1511 - 1580)

Date1885

Place MadeEngland, Europe

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions23 x 15 x 3.5 cm (9 1/16 x 5 7/8 x 1 3/8 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberS.G.S.1.34

eMuseum ID720595

EmbARK ObjectID20619

TMS Source ID7229

Last Updated8/9/24

Descriptionxix + [3], 366 + [1] pages ; 8°

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella 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.

MarksNotesInscribed 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

ProvenanceNotesGift from British lawyer and scholar Edward Heron-Allen to Isabella Stewart Gardner (1861-1943) on 23 January 1887.