Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Title: The Graphic Arts a Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and Engraving
Description: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1882. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this lavishly illustrated treatise on the graphic arts, a beautiful study by Philip Gilbert Hamerton. The first edition.An extensive and impressive work on the graphic arts, looking in detail at drawing, painting, and engraving, comparing the mediums with each other and with nature.This work was published in the midst of the etching revival, a re-emergence and invigoration of the art that began in 1850 and only ended in 1930 with the Wall Street crash - this work helped to contribute to the appreciation of the art.Illustrated with forty-nine plates and five in-text woodcuts.Collated, complete.By Philip Gilbert Hamerton, a prominent artist and theorist leading the English Etching Revival.Two bookplates to the front paste down, of W. H. Rider and Thomas Wardle. Wardle was a businessman, known for his great innovations in the silk industry, particularly in silk dyeing and printing on silk. He collaborated with William Morris, and was knighted by Queen Victoria. In the original half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A little rubbing to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only a few light handling marks or spots. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine .

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