Portrait
Jost Thone Verlag is a publishing house founded in Cologne in 1998, specialising in reference works on Italian and French violin making.
Its catalogue includes the four-volume documentation of Antonio Stradivari, along with volumes on other significant makers and schools. The books are produced to an unusually high photographic and editorial standard, and have become standard references for dealers, makers and collectors.
These are not instruments. We stock the publications because the documentation behind an instrument matters as much as the instrument itself, particularly on the heritage side of what we do. If you are researching a specific maker or school and want to know which volume covers it, ask us.
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