A compleat tutor for the violin
Subtitle: containing the best and easiest instructions for learners to obtain a proficiency[.] To which is added a choice collection of the most celebrated Italian[,] English and Scotch tunes
Contributors: Prelleur, Peter, 1705?-1741
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Peter Thompson ...
Published: 1755
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Violin music; Violin; Arranged Violin music; Instruction and study; Early works to 1800; Violin music (Violins (2))
Other titles: Complete tutor for the violin; Nolens volens, or, You shall learn to play the violin whether you will or no.
Notes: The tutor is an edition of the anonymous 'Nolens volens, or, You shall learn to play on the violin whether you will or no', originally published in 1695 and later included by P. Prelleur in 'The modern musick-master' (1731) as 'The art of playing on the violin', with different 'tunes' appended.

The tunes are set for solo violin or violin duet.

'Instructions' (p. 2-9); 'tunes' (p. 10-34); "A dictionary" (p. 35); "An alphabetical table of all the tunes" (p. 36).

Full pagination: [2], 2-5, 7-36 p., with p. 6 inserted as a folded leaf.

Frontispiece engraved by H. Roberts.