Bone Book Available as download

[Jim Garber]

On another thread someone did mention that the Bickford Volume 1 is available for free download. Also linked on this site is a free download for Philip Bone's Guitar and Mandolin.

[Bruce Clausen]

Excellent! Thank you, Jim.

BC

[Martin Jonas]

Thanks, Jim. I had seen the link before, but have only now got around to downloading it. Particularly fascinating are the adverts at the back of the book, as we have a mixture of European and American advertisers side-by-side (presumably the book was sold on both sides of the Atlantic).

The very first advert after the index is for Umberto Ceccherini, and strangely enough, the advert does not list the ubiquitous Alban Voigt as the general distributor but instead Beare & Son -- thus, Ceccherini was still around in 1914, but had changed distributor.

There is also a Gibson ad, with the same hype and bowlback-libel as in other Gibson ads of the time, as well as an intriguing ad for Windsor mandolins showing the A12 "lumpy" design (F-style outline by no actual scroll) decades before Gibson latched onto it. Clearly, one can have bad ideas before their time, not just good ideas.

There are also ads for Gelas and Monzino and loads of others. Also striking that mandolin ads far outnumber guitar ads in a book aimed at both instruments.

Martin