Fiddle Fancier's Guide

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Reader who may be interested in the subject of this Guide will, I hope, find the contents of the book to be of some value to him - how much, if any, more than usual, is not for me to say. I think, however, I may, without egotism, state that there is-hardly a maker of any import ance, from the earliest to the latest, about whom, or about whose work, something fresh in the matter of descriptive detail may not be gleaned from these pages, while a very large number of the more ordinary class of craftsmen have had certain points of their work briefly elucidated in a manner calculated to be helpful for purposes of identification.