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Julia Frankau - Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: An Essay on Certain Stipple Engravers and Their Work in Colour

Title: Eighteenth Century Colour Prints: An Essay on Certain Stipple Engravers and Their Work in Colour
Description: London, Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1900. Cloth. A scarce limited edition of this beautifully illustrated and important work, compiled and edited by Julia Frankau. This edition is limited to 200 copies. Complete with 52 coloured plates with accompanying tissue guard. Collated complete. This work explores the art of stipple engravers, a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. Written, compiled and edited by Julia Frankau, an Irish novelist who wrote under the name of Frank Danby. Frankau wrote on many subjects, including engraving, these titles were often released under her own name. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very neat with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the extremities, particularly to the front and last few pages. Some pages unopened to the top edge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Colour Prints Stipple Frankau Stipple None

Price: GBP 550.00 = appr. US$ 785.39 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 839T64

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