Rare and very important book by WC Retford Head of the Hanwell Bow making and restoration Workshop for W.E. Hill & Sons Bond Street

Immaculate copy as you can see

Tight boards and very well looked after corners highly collectible condition

High quality print photo illustrations of all the great makers French English and less frequently German makers

Here Retford offers much opinion and detail on the bow itself, on the great makers and on materials

This is a key and important reference book for players, dealers restorers and anybody interested in vintage bow recognition.

Literaly everybody who is serious in the bow business treats it as a must have investment

Retford offers a huge selection of photographs of the great makers from many sources, though especially concentrating on those bows from the Hill Bow Collection in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford

We have sold several copies of this book in the last few years and this is undoubtedly the best condition so far

As a workshop and dealer reference book, condition of corners and spine are often challenged by pressing circumstances.

This is a definitive and uncompromising dealer and collectors key reference book for which it often suffers the passage of time and usage

Not so in this instance.