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Antoine Vidal Les Instruments a Archet Vols 1&2

Title: Les Instruments a Archet
Author: Vidal, Antoine
Description: Volume 1 & 2 only (of eventually 3). [4], xvi, 357; [4], vi, 383 pp. 87 etched plates by Frederich Hillemacher. (4to) 11x8¾, rebound in green half morocco and cloth, spines gilt, raised bands, original wrappers bound in at rear. One of 500 copies. First Edition.A third volume was added in 1878. Edward Heron-Allen states: "This is, beyond the possibility of a doubt, the greatest work ever published or which is ever likely to be published on the violin." Fidiculis Bibliographia, 191.
Heading: zze(Violins)Place Published: Paris
Publisher: J. Claye
Date Published: 1876, 1877