The art of playing on the violin, containing all the rules necessary to attain to a perfection on that instrument : with great variety of compositions, which will also be very useful to those who study the violoncello, harpsichord &c
Francesco Geminiani's 1751 violin method, printed for the author in London and once owned by Thomas Jefferson, is a treatise on bowing and fingering with exercises for violin, cello and harpsichord. Its pages are engraved music notation: staves of dense ornamental runs and passages set under Italian headings such as Esempio, with the numbered examples giving a designer a crisp rhythm of ruled lines, dotted note clusters and flourishing curved phrases.
