[Violin] Brook, Donald. [Szigeti, Thibaud, Haendel, Goldberg, Rostal etc.]. "Violinists of Today," Signed by 13 Important Violinists!. London: Rockliff. 1948. First edition. Biographies of 28 violinists, as well as 28 photographs. xiii, 192 pp, 28 plates, frontispiece of Heifetz. Thirteen of the portraits are signed, by: Antonio Brosa, Alfredo Campoli, Szymon Goldberg, Henry Holst, Ida Haendel, Alan Loveday, Thomas Mattews, Jean Pougnet, Max Rostal, Jacques Thibaud, Marie Wilson, Joseph Szigeti and Raymond Cohen.

From the estate of the well-known English photographer Catharine Scudamore, who has signed the flyleaf and dated it Christmas, 1948, and whose bookplate appears on the inside front cover. Scudamore's annotations appear throughout the book. Two leafs from the table of contents have come loose but are still present.