The Bows of Nikolai Kittel
by
Klaus Grünke, Josef P. Gabriel and Yung Chin
by
Klaus Grünke, Josef P. Gabriel and Yung Chin
The first comprehensive publication highlighting the bows of Nikolai Kittel from St. Petersburg.
- Text in English and German
- 751 detailed coloured images
- 30 selected bows in details by Nikolai Kittel
- 3 selected bows in details by Heinrich Knopf
- 47 images of stamps at 500% magnification
- 26 stick dimension charts
- Kittel’s biography embedded in history
- Essay by Andy Lim about the development and establishment of the musical life in Saint Petersburg in the 18th and the 19th
Century during the working life of Nikolai Kittel Sr. and Jr.
- Size: 32 x 28 cm, number of pages: 264, printed on silk-matt 200 gram Profisilk, Weight: 3 kilogram
- Highest quality in printing and bookbinding entirely by hand, both in Germany
- Clothbound 4 mm hardcovers for both the book and the Lim slipcase with its innovative mechanical pull-out device
- Embossings in Copper and Gold Leaf
Library Edition: € 375,- and P&P
De Luxe Edition: € 750,- and P&P
The De Luxe Edition is limited to only 99 numbered and signed copies worldwide, with18 Carat three-side edge gilding, selected goat leather in Russian Green and the Lim-Slipcase in Midnight Snow Balacron.
Additional highlight of the De Luxe Edition:
An Exclusive addition to the De Luxe Editions are two 100 cm fold-outs, hand-stitched in the book, showing six violin and five cello bows by Kittel in full length and full size Slit-Scan-Photography by Andy Lim.
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