Author: [MARTYN (Thomas)]
Title: A Chronological Series of Engravers from the Invention of the Art to the Beginning of the Present Century.
Description: Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon, 1770. First edition, 12mo, [4], xii, 128, [16]pp., LACKING the 3 folding plates of engravers' marks and monograms, cont. calf, rubbed, re-backed with inner hinges strengthened. A preface of 12 pages which is a brief history of engraving is followed by 128 pages of names arranged in two series, the first being numbers 1 (Martin Schoen) to 639 (J. Dieu de S. Jean), foreign engravers, the second being numbers 640 (Thomas Geminie or Geminus) to 805 (James Green), English engravers. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.135; Levis, p.51-2.

Keywords: ENGRAVING ENGRAVERS