Author: POORTENAAR, J[AN],
Title: Etskunst. Techniek en Geschiedenis. Preface by H. Teding van Berkhout. Vierde druk. (4th edn.).
Description: Naarden, The Author In den Toren, 1946. Large 8°. Orig. clothbacked white boards, title in gilt on front boards, author's personal vignette in gilt in centre. Hftitle (verso blank), (xvi), 216pp. frontispiece (original etching), 5 other original etchings in various techniques, all signed in full in pencil by author/artist Jan Poortenaar, all with tissue-guards preserved, num. ills. on 61 black/white photo-plates, of which 53 out-of-text, many text-ills. after author's drawings, initials, 12 original paper-samples (etching-paper) tipped-in on 3 unnumbered leaves, extensive bibliography, register. All six original etchings in various techniques and subjects, of which the frontispiece depicts a Balinese Templegate (etching), a paddy-field in colonial Indonesia (dry needlepoint etching), an aquatint etching, a combination of various techniques, an etching and aquatint and a varnish mou. Privately published by author in a limited and numbered edition of 250 copies for-the-trade, this copy bears nr. 137. Provenance printed on verso of ti.-p., copy printed with wide margins. An interesting manual informing the reader on various etching-techniques. A good to very good copy. Rare. (some light wear to upper- and lower outer joints, corners of boards with some light wear, contents very clean, modest signature in corner of first blank).

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