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| CHAMBERS (DAVID) Joan Hassall: Engravings & Drawings. Private Libraries Association. 1985. First Edition, large 8vo, 469 facsimiles, orig. cloth. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 12838 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| DYSON (ANTHONY) Pictures to Print. The Nineteenth-Century Engraving Trade. Farrand Press. 1984. First Edition, 4to, one of 100 deluxe numbered copies, signed by the author, publisher & colourist, hand-coloured frontispiece printed from a plate engraved c.1880 taken from the archives of Thos. Ross & Son. 95 illustrs., half morocco, t.e.g. Chronicles a remarkable period in the history of painting and the making of related prints. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 73 US$ 108.29 | JP 9633] Book number: 19367 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| GAUTIER (HENRI) L’Art de Laver oder: Die Kunst zu Tuschen, das ist: die allerneueste Manier Vestungen und andere Risse mit gehorigen Farben zu mahlen und zu tuschen... ; nunmehr ins Teutsche ubers. / von H. Gautier de Nismes. Monath, Nurnberg. 1745. [xiv],96pp., 2 engr Monath, Nurnberg. 1746. [xiv],209,[7]; engraved frontispiece, 18 engraved plates. 2 works bound in one, neat stamp to title of first work otherwise plates and text are nice and clean in both volumes, recent full vellum. The first work, originally published in 1687, was one of the earliest European works on the techniques of using watercolours. The second, a treatise on engraving, when first issued in 1645, the work was “notable for its completeness for the time of its production, and for its plates, which have been reproduced by most subsequent writers on the art”—Bigmore & Wyman I, p.72. GBP 595.00 [Appr.: EURO 666.5 US$ 991.27 | JP 88178] Book number: 25330 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| HIND (ARTHUR M.) A Short History of Engraving & Etching for the use of Collectors and Students. With Full Bibliography, Classified List and Index of Engravers. Constable and Co., Ltd. 1911. Second Edition, frontis., 110 illustrs., orig. cloth, uncut. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 74.97 | JP 6669] Book number: 18899 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| HIND (ARTHUR M.) A Short History of Engraving & Etching for the use of Collectors and Students. With Full Bibliography, Classified List and Index of Engravers. Constable and Co., Ltd. 1908. First Edition, frontis., 110 illustrs., a few quires sprung, orig. cloth, a little worn. GBP 32.00 [Appr.: EURO 36 US$ 53.31 | JP 4742] Book number: 20094 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| LEVIS (HOWARD C.) A Descriptive Bibliography of the Most Important Books in the English Language Relating to the Art and History of Engraving and the Collecting of Prints. [With:] Supplement and Index. Ellis. 1912-13. First Edition, 2 vols., in one, large 4to, limited to 350 copies, frontis., plates and illustrs., facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, endpapers and fore-edges slightly spotted, printed paper label on spine, unopened, uncut. A complete bibliography of Engraving. GBP 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 330.5 US$ 491.47 | JP 43719] Book number: 20237 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BRITISH MUSEUM. A Guide to the Processes and Schools of Engraving. With notes on some of the most Important Masters. British Museum. 1933. Third Edition, 52pp., illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP 1778] Book number: 12837 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| ORLANDI (PELLEGRINI ANTONIO) Repertorium Sculptile-Typicum: Or a Complete Collection and Explanation of the Several Marks and Cyphers by which the Prints of the best Engravers are Distinguished. With an Alphabetical Index of their Names, Places of Abode, and Times in which they lived Printed by S.G. for Sam. Harding. 1730. First Edition, 69,[1]pp., cont. calf-backed marbled boards, a little rubbed. The earliest book in English devoted to the subject of engravers’ marks. Containing 160 marks or monograms, the initial letters used by engravers for their marks and an alphabetical index of the Christian names and Surnames of the engravers, etc. GBP 225.00 [Appr.: EURO 252.25 US$ 374.85 | JP 33345] Book number: 25084 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| OTTLEY (WILLIAM YOUNG) A Collection of One Hundred and Twenty-Nine Fac-Similes of Scarce and Curious Prints, by the Early Masters of the Italian, German, and Flemish Schools; Illustrative of the History of Engraving, from the Invention of the Art, by Maso Finiguerra, in the Mid Published for the Proprietor, Printed by J. M’Creery. 1828. Folio, [iv],xxxvi,xxvpp., fine large paper copy, frontispiece 136 facsimile engravings printed on 82 leaves, the facsimiles of the Nielli printed on silver paper with a duplicate on India paper, occasional light foxing, cont. half vellum on marbled boards, spine gilt with a leather label, t.e.g. uncut, a very nice copy. Bigmore & Wyman II, p.98. “This beautiful work may fairly be stated to be unpublished, as very few copies were ever distributed, and these chiefly as presents to the friends of Mr Ottley... The large paper copies have the facsimiles of the Nielli printed in silver in exact imitation of the very valuable originals, a duplicate being given on India paper”. GBP 995.00 [Appr.: EURO 1114.5 US$ 1657.67 | JP 147457] Book number: 20312 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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